Lunar Outpost
#828287
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
#828287
RGB
130, 130, 135
OKLCh
60.8% 0.007 286.2°
CIELAB (D50)
54.5, 0.8, -2.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 65.8; on black, Lc -35.9. 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.
- 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
3.82:1 — large text only
Black text
5.49:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.49:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#76767b 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
#828287
protanopia
#828287 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#828287 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#828287 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVictorian Pewter at ΔE00 0.647: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Victorian PewterΔE00 0.647 · #828388
- Mission ControlΔE00 1.372 · #818387
- SharkskinΔE00 1.393 · #808184
- Whale TailΔE00 1.844 · #86878c
- Pound SterlingΔE00 2.303 · #818081
- IronsideΔE00 2.378 · #7e8082
- ChertΔE00 2.599 · #848182
- Silver FiligreeΔE00 2.651 · #7f7c81
- Storm CloudΔE00 2.66 · #808283
- Old AmethystΔE00 2.671 · #87868f
- Heavy GreyΔE00 2.673 · #82868a
- Grey HeatherΔE00 2.683 · #868790
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.