Mummy’s Tomb
#828e84
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
#828e84
RGB
130, 142, 132
OKLCh
63.4% 0.020 150.4°
CIELAB (D50)
57.8, -6.0, 3.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 12% 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 61.7; on black, Lc -40.0. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.9 and 6.2 and 18.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.41:1 — large text only
Black text
6.15:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.15:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6e7a70 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
#828e84
protanopia
#8d8d84 · ΔE00 5.9
deuteranopia
#8b8b84 · ΔE00 6.2
tritanopia
#8888a4 · ΔE00 18.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLily Pad Pond at ΔE00 0.954: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lily Pad PondΔE00 0.954 · #818f84
- Forest MossΔE00 1.333 · #858f83
- DowagerΔE00 1.414 · #838c82
- Valley FloorΔE00 1.617 · #848d85
- Salty SeaΔE00 2.026 · #7c8b7f
- Fat CatΔE00 2.314 · #868d82
- Grey HeronΔE00 2.321 · #89928a
- Wethersfield MossΔE00 2.323 · #859488
- Peaceful GladeΔE00 2.342 · #878e83
- Appalachian ForestΔE00 2.415 · #848b80
- Zinc BlueΔE00 2.477 · #84948b
- Wild SageΔE00 2.631 · #7e877d
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.