Hong Kong Mist
#948e90
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
#948e90
RGB
148, 142, 144
OKLCh
65.3% 0.008 354.9°
CIELAB (D50)
59.6, 2.6, -0.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 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 59.4; on black, Lc -42.3. 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 12.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.22:1 — large text only
Black text
6.53:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.53:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7577 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
#948e90
protanopia
#8f8f90 · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#909090 · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#91917c · ΔE00 12.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGull at ΔE00 1.02: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- GullΔE00 1.02 · #918c8f
- GreylacΔE00 1.223 · #948c8d
- Slate VioletΔE00 1.269 · #989192
- Shining ArmourΔE00 1.293 · #908b8e
- Plum SmokeΔE00 1.589 · #928e8e
- Moonlit OrchidΔE00 1.802 · #949194
- Opal GreyΔE00 1.857 · #9a9394
- Storm Rolling InΔE00 2.06 · #999495
- Gourmet MushroomΔE00 2.069 · #968d8c
- ZincΔE00 2.162 · #92898a
- ManiΔE00 2.248 · #97908e
- Warm AsphaltΔE00 2.39 · #9c9395
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.