Empress
#7c7173
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
#7c7173
RGB
124, 113, 115
OKLCh
55.9% 0.014 5.1°
CIELAB (D50)
48.7, 4.7, 0.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 72.7; on black, Lc -29.0. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.0 and 6.6 and 21.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.70:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.47:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.70:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7c7173
protanopia
#727273 · ΔE00 6.0
deuteranopia
#747473 · ΔE00 6.6
tritanopia
#777746 · ΔE00 21.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHeather Sachet at ΔE00 0.49: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Heather SachetΔE00 0.49 · #7b7173
- EnigmaticΔE00 0.871 · #7e7275
- ImageryΔE00 1.199 · #7a6e70
- Pumice GreyΔE00 1.346 · #807375
- GrapyΔE00 1.36 · #786e70
- SophomoreΔE00 1.618 · #7d7170
- Zircon GreyΔE00 2.018 · #807473
- Pineal PinkΔE00 2.151 · #786d72
- RealmΔE00 2.249 · #796c70
- Hickory CliffΔE00 2.26 · #7c6e6d
- Jubilee GreyΔE00 2.324 · #7c7379
- Soft FurΔE00 2.372 · #7e7574
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.