Mule
#827b77
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
#827b77
RGB
130, 123, 119
OKLCh
58.8% 0.011 52.0°
CIELAB (D50)
52.2, 2.2, 3.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 7% 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 68.7; on black, Lc -33.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 13.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.16:1 — large text only
Black text
5.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7571 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
#827b77
protanopia
#7c7c77 · ΔE00 4.2
deuteranopia
#7d7d77 · ΔE00 4.5
tritanopia
#7f7f5d · ΔE00 13.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGrey Suit at ΔE00 0.817: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Grey SuitΔE00 0.817 · #807a77
- Cool CharcoalΔE00 1.355 · #807b76
- Amazon StoneΔE00 1.548 · #7e7873
- GothamΔE00 1.572 · #807872
- Suede GreyΔE00 1.664 · #857f7a
- Chain LinkΔE00 1.673 · #847e78
- Susu GreenΔE00 1.98 · #887f7a
- CapsΔE00 1.995 · #7e7a75
- Steeple GreyΔE00 2.014 · #827e7c
- Complex GreyΔE00 2.096 · #847975
- TadpoleΔE00 2.166 · #7d7771
- Eastlake LavenderΔE00 2.322 · #887d79
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.