Sea Lion
#7f8793
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
#7f8793
RGB
127, 135, 147
OKLCh
62.1% 0.020 258.4°
CIELAB (D50)
55.9, -1.1, -7.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 10% 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 63.9; on black, Lc -37.8. 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 9.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.63:1 — large text only
Black text
5.79:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.79:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#707783 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7f8793
protanopia
#868693 · ΔE00 4.4
deuteranopia
#858593 · ΔE00 4.7
tritanopia
#8383a6 · ΔE00 9.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCold Trade Winds at ΔE00 0.364: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cold Trade WindsΔE00 0.364 · #7e8692
- Smoky StudioΔE00 0.868 · #7e8590
- Roman SilverΔE00 1.513 · #838996
- River TourΔE00 1.935 · #848b99
- Salon BleuΔE00 2.151 · #7d8697
- Slate TintΔE00 2.199 · #7a818d
- StowawayΔE00 2.294 · #7b8393
- Deep Smoke SignalΔE00 2.319 · #7d8392
- Window ScreenΔE00 2.32 · #7c8899
- LinkΔE00 2.462 · #778290
- Applause PleaseΔE00 2.483 · #858c9b
- Prophetic SeaΔE00 2.495 · #818b9c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.