Dusky Mood
#979ba8
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
#979ba8
RGB
151, 155, 168
OKLCh
69.0% 0.019 272.2°
CIELAB (D50)
64.0, 0.5, -7.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses only 12% 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 53.5; on black, Lc -48.3. 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 5.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.77:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.57:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.57:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737683 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
#979ba8
protanopia
#9b9ba8 · ΔE00 2.2
deuteranopia
#9a9aa8 · ΔE00 2.3
tritanopia
#9999b2 · ΔE00 5.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWet Asphalt at ΔE00 0.927: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Wet AsphaltΔE00 0.927 · #989cab
- Dame DignityΔE00 1.066 · #999ba8
- Angry GargoyleΔE00 1.17 · #9799a6
- Time WarpΔE00 1.366 · #9397a3
- Dark AgesΔE00 1.47 · #9698a3
- Bright ManateeΔE00 1.516 · #979aaa
- MemoriseΔE00 1.747 · #9197a4
- AcanthusΔE00 1.792 · #9899a7
- Classic CloudΔE00 1.89 · #9197a3
- Perfect StormΔE00 1.998 · #9598a1
- Screen TestΔE00 2.221 · #999eb0
- Too Big to WhaleΔE00 2.226 · #9596a4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.