HueComb

Aluminium

#848789

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

#848789

RGB

132, 135, 137

OKLCh

62.2% 0.005 236.5°

CIELAB (D50)

56.1, -0.8, -1.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 16 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • 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 63.8; on black, Lc -37.9. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.5 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.62:1 — large text only

Black text

5.81:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.81:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#747779 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#848789

protanopia

#878789 · ΔE00 1.8

deuteranopia

#868689 · ΔE00 1.9

tritanopia

#868691 · ΔE00 5.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMagnetic Grey at ΔE00 0.545: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.