In the Twilight
#84838e
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
#84838e
RGB
132, 131, 142
OKLCh
61.5% 0.016 290.1°
CIELAB (D50)
55.1, 2.1, -5.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 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 65.0; on black, Lc -36.7. 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
3.74:1 — large text only
Black text
5.62:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.62:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#777680 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
#84838e
protanopia
#83838e · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#83838e · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#83838b · ΔE00 1.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFormal Affair at ΔE00 1.325: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Formal AffairΔE00 1.325 · #848391
- Old AmethystΔE00 1.409 · #87868f
- Modest MauveΔE00 1.619 · #838492
- Box OfficeΔE00 1.82 · #898790
- ClairvoyanceΔE00 1.951 · #838493
- Grey HeatherΔE00 2.005 · #868790
- Mecha MetalΔE00 2.166 · #848393
- HorseshoeΔE00 2.241 · #8b8893
- Silver SurferΔE00 2.26 · #7e7d88
- MetroΔE00 2.291 · #828393
- Soft SavvyΔE00 2.789 · #837e87
- MiracleΔE00 2.804 · #898696
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.