Zinc
#92898a
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
#92898a
RGB
146, 137, 138
OKLCh
63.8% 0.011 9.7°
CIELAB (D50)
57.9, 3.6, 0.7
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 61.6; on black, Lc -40.1. 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.
- deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.4 and 17.4 — no green cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.40:1 — large text only
Black text
6.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d7576 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
#92898a
protanopia
#8a8a8a · ΔE00 4.9
deuteranopia
#8c8c8a · ΔE00 5.4
tritanopia
#8e8e69 · ΔE00 17.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreylac at ΔE00 1.082: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- GreylacΔE00 1.082 · #948c8d
- Storm BreakΔE00 1.11 · #938988
- Gourmet MushroomΔE00 1.707 · #968d8c
- PurpuraΔE00 1.78 · #8d8485
- Stone HazeΔE00 1.834 · #93888c
- Light Shōchi BlackΔE00 2.044 · #8e8887
- Heather MoorΔE00 2.089 · #998e8f
- Globe Thistle Grey RoseΔE00 2.147 · #998d8d
- Hong Kong MistΔE00 2.162 · #948e90
- Mine RockΔE00 2.18 · #8e8583
- Shining ArmourΔE00 2.228 · #908b8e
- GullΔE00 2.319 · #918c8f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.