Detective Coat
#8b8685
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
#8b8685
RGB
139, 134, 133
OKLCh
62.4% 0.006 31.1°
CIELAB (D50)
56.3, 1.8, 1.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 63.5; on black, Lc -38.1. 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 10.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.59:1 — large text only
Black text
5.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7675 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
#8b8685
protanopia
#878785 · ΔE00 2.9
deuteranopia
#878785 · ΔE00 3.2
tritanopia
#888874 · ΔE00 10.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Shōchi Black at ΔE00 0.951: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Light Shōchi BlackΔE00 0.951 · #8e8887
- Chorus of ElephantsΔE00 1.186 · #8e8987
- TitaniumΔE00 1.525 · #888586
- Lunar FederationΔE00 1.837 · #868381
- Pewter RingΔE00 1.908 · #8a8886
- Mine RockΔE00 2.04 · #8e8583
- Looking GlassΔE00 2.235 · #888786
- Night on the MoorsΔE00 2.269 · #898487
- Falcon GreyΔE00 2.269 · #898887
- Lingering StormΔE00 2.301 · #858381
- ChertΔE00 2.434 · #848182
- PurpuraΔE00 2.445 · #8d8485
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.