HueComb

Ironside

#7e8082

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

#7e8082

RGB

126, 128, 130

OKLCh

59.9% 0.004 247.9°

CIELAB (D50)

53.5, -0.5, -1.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.0; on black, Lc -34.6. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

3.96:1 — large text only

Black text

5.30:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.30:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#757779 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#7e8082

protanopia

#808082 · ΔE00 1.2

deuteranopia

#7f7f82 · ΔE00 1.3

tritanopia

#7f7f88 · ΔE00 3.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStorm Cloud at ΔE00 0.926: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Storm CloudΔE00 0.926 · #808283
  • SharkskinΔE00 0.999 · #808184
  • Mt. RushmoreΔE00 1.19 · #7f8181
  • Game OverΔE00 1.377 · #7e8181
  • GreyΔE00 1.489 · #808080
  • Trolley GreyΔE00 1.566 · #818181
  • Mission ControlΔE00 1.606 · #818387
  • Aged Moustache GreyΔE00 1.618 · #7e7e7e
  • Legendary SwordΔE00 1.625 · #7f8384
  • Namara GreyΔE00 1.647 · #7b7c7d
  • SquantΔE00 1.663 · #828383
  • Cowboy SpurΔE00 1.719 · #7a7f82

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.