Gotham
#807872
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
#807872
RGB
128, 120, 114
OKLCh
57.8% 0.013 59.4°
CIELAB (D50)
51.0, 2.3, 4.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 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 70.0; on black, Lc -31.6. 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.
- deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.1 and 14.7 — no green cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.33:1 — large text only
Black text
4.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d756f 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
#807872
protanopia
#797972 · ΔE00 4.8
deuteranopia
#7a7a72 · ΔE00 5.1
tritanopia
#7c7c52 · ΔE00 14.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAmazon Stone at ΔE00 1.096: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Amazon StoneΔE00 1.096 · #7e7873
- TadpoleΔE00 1.237 · #7d7771
- Palomino PonyΔE00 1.529 · #837871
- MuleΔE00 1.572 · #827b77
- BearsuitΔE00 1.626 · #7d756d
- Cool CharcoalΔE00 1.86 · #807b76
- Grey SuitΔE00 1.865 · #807a77
- Chinchilla GreyΔE00 2.051 · #7f746e
- VigilantΔE00 2.074 · #81796f
- Complex GreyΔE00 2.197 · #847975
- CapsΔE00 2.209 · #7e7a75
- DeconstructionΔE00 2.293 · #7b736b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.