Lost Space
#969389
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
#969389
RGB
150, 147, 137
OKLCh
66.3% 0.015 93.1°
CIELAB (D50)
61.0, -0.2, 5.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 11% 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 57.7; on black, Lc -44.1. 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 5.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.07:1 — large text only
Black text
6.83:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.83:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7a776d 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
#969389
protanopia
#939389 · ΔE00 1.7
deuteranopia
#949489 · ΔE00 1.8
tritanopia
#94947e · ΔE00 5.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSmoky Grey Green at ΔE00 1.084: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Smoky Grey GreenΔE00 1.084 · #939087
- Destroyer GreyΔE00 1.147 · #98968d
- Worlds AwayΔE00 1.619 · #98978d
- ChampignonΔE00 1.864 · #949089
- Stony CreekΔE00 2.007 · #948f82
- Cornwall SlateΔE00 2.01 · #949488
- Lazy AfternoonΔE00 2.032 · #97928b
- London FogΔE00 2.141 · #9d988c
- ClaytoneΔE00 2.177 · #969283
- Timber TownΔE00 2.191 · #908d85
- Dapple GreyΔE00 2.22 · #959486
- Parador StoneΔE00 2.42 · #908d86
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.