HueComb

Monument

#84898c

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

#84898c

RGB

132, 137, 140

OKLCh

62.7% 0.007 233.7°

CIELAB (D50)

56.7, -1.4, -2.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 only 6% 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 63.0; on black, Lc -38.7. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 8.3 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.54:1 — large text only

Black text

5.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#73777a 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

#84898c

protanopia

#88888c · ΔE00 2.8

deuteranopia

#88888c · ΔE00 3.0

tritanopia

#878799 · ΔE00 8.3

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 0.94: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Magnetic GreyΔE00 0.94 · #838789
  • AluminiumΔE00 1.229 · #848789
  • Heavy GreyΔE00 1.287 · #82868a
  • Stone CairnΔE00 1.425 · #888c90
  • Leadbelcher MetalΔE00 1.492 · #888d8f
  • Oslo GreyΔE00 1.497 · #878d91
  • Ancient PewterΔE00 1.72 · #898d91
  • London RoadΔE00 1.781 · #7f878a
  • Distant ThunderΔE00 1.782 · #7f8688
  • Great Coat GreyΔE00 1.878 · #7f8488
  • Heavy Metal ArmourΔE00 1.905 · #888a8e
  • SoftwareΔE00 1.921 · #7f8486

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