Cement Feet
#7b737b
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7b737b
RGB
123, 115, 123
OKLCh
56.5% 0.015 325.8°
CIELAB (D50)
49.4, 4.4, -3.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 6% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.9; on black, Lc -29.8. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 17.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.58:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.58:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.58:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7b737b
protanopia
#74747b · ΔE00 4.4
deuteranopia
#75757b · ΔE00 4.6
tritanopia
#777760 · ΔE00 17.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJubilee Grey at ΔE00 1.089: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Jubilee GreyΔE00 1.089 · #7c7379
- Plush VelvetΔE00 1.714 · #7e737d
- Chain MailΔE00 2.004 · #81777f
- Plum ShadowΔE00 2.696 · #7c707c
- Exclusive PlumΔE00 2.843 · #736f78
- Dried Lavender FlowersΔE00 2.933 · #77747f
- Pineal PinkΔE00 2.993 · #786d72
- PurposefulΔE00 2.999 · #776c76
- Lavender EleganceΔE00 3.093 · #786c75
- EnigmaticΔE00 3.099 · #7e7275
- Pearl BlackberryΔE00 3.158 · #76727f
- Hawk GreyΔE00 3.161 · #77757d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.