Roman Silver
#838996
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
#838996
RGB
131, 137, 150
OKLCh
62.9% 0.021 265.9°
CIELAB (D50)
56.9, -0.2, -7.8
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 62.7; on black, Lc -39.0. 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 7.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.51:1 — large text only
Black text
5.98:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.98:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#717784 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
#838996
protanopia
#888896 · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#878796 · ΔE00 3.5
tritanopia
#8686a5 · ΔE00 7.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRiver Tour at ΔE00 0.851: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- River TourΔE00 0.851 · #848b99
- Ombre GreyΔE00 1.165 · #848998
- Applause PleaseΔE00 1.334 · #858c9b
- Sea LionΔE00 1.513 · #7f8793
- Yin Hūi SilverΔE00 1.566 · #848999
- Cold Trade WindsΔE00 1.752 · #7e8692
- Smoky StudioΔE00 1.963 · #7e8590
- Prophetic SeaΔE00 2.158 · #818b9c
- Stand OutΔE00 2.235 · #7f8596
- Salon BleuΔE00 2.24 · #7d8697
- Deep Smoke SignalΔE00 2.331 · #7d8392
- Flannel PyjamasΔE00 2.653 · #8b8d98
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.