Petrified
#8b8680
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
#8b8680
RGB
139, 134, 128
OKLCh
62.3% 0.011 72.6°
CIELAB (D50)
56.2, 1.1, 3.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 8% 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 63.7; on black, Lc -38.0. 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 9.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.61:1 — large text only
Black text
5.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7670 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
#8b8680
protanopia
#878780 · ΔE00 3.0
deuteranopia
#878780 · ΔE00 3.2
tritanopia
#88886e · ΔE00 9.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMountain Smoke at ΔE00 1.37: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mountain SmokeΔE00 1.37 · #8e877f
- So SublimeΔE00 1.432 · #8b847c
- DovetailΔE00 1.612 · #908a83
- Gunmetal BeigeΔE00 1.618 · #908982
- ExcelsiorΔE00 1.772 · #908b85
- PierΔE00 1.792 · #88857d
- Hagstone ChoirΔE00 1.847 · #8b837d
- Barnwood AshΔE00 2.01 · #87857e
- Elephant SkinΔE00 2.021 · #88817a
- Rocky RidgeΔE00 2.119 · #918c86
- GreystokeΔE00 2.137 · #85837e
- Wet CementΔE00 2.186 · #89877f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.