HueComb

Hurricane

#8b7e77

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

#8b7e77

RGB

139, 126, 119

OKLCh

60.3% 0.019 50.3°

CIELAB (D50)

53.8, 4.2, 5.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 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 66.7; on black, Lc -35.0. 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 7.5 and 8.1 and 21.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.93:1 — large text only

Black text

5.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#81746d 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

#8b7e77

protanopia

#808077 · ΔE00 7.5

deuteranopia

#828277 · ΔE00 8.1

tritanopia

#858535 · ΔE00 21.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBleached Bark at ΔE00 0.57: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Bleached BarkΔE00 0.57 · #8b7f78
  • Moon RockΔE00 0.672 · #897d76
  • Poised TaupeΔE00 0.795 · #8c7e78
  • Revere GreigeΔE00 0.829 · #8a7c75
  • Pre-RaphaeliteΔE00 1.09 · #8b7f7a
  • Vulcan MudΔE00 1.447 · #897f79
  • Spalding GreyΔE00 1.501 · #8d7f75
  • TsarΔE00 1.574 · #8b7f7b
  • Cinnamon ToastΔE00 1.611 · #8d7d77
  • Eastlake LavenderΔE00 1.709 · #887d79
  • Cherry BarkΔE00 1.814 · #908279
  • FungiΔE00 1.836 · #8f8177

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