HueComb

Smoky Studio

#7e8590

A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#7e8590

RGB

126, 133, 144

OKLCh

61.5% 0.019 259.4°

CIELAB (D50)

55.2, -0.9, -6.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 9% 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 64.8; on black, Lc -36.9. 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 9.2 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.72:1 — large text only

Black text

5.64:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.64:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#707782 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

#7e8590

protanopia

#848490 · ΔE00 3.9

deuteranopia

#838390 · ΔE00 4.1

tritanopia

#8282a1 · ΔE00 9.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCold Trade Winds at ΔE00 0.632: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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