Happy Cement
#979ea1
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
#979ea1
RGB
151, 158, 161
OKLCh
69.5% 0.009 225.1°
CIELAB (D50)
64.6, -2.1, -2.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 7% 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 52.7; on black, Lc -49.2. 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 10.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.72:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.72:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.72:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#71787b 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
#979ea1
protanopia
#9d9da1 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#9c9ca1 · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#9b9bb4 · ΔE00 10.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWindow Grey at ΔE00 0.494: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Window GreyΔE00 0.494 · #989ea1
- UFOΔE00 0.614 · #989fa3
- Prehistoric StoneΔE00 0.846 · #9aa0a3
- Tank HeadΔE00 0.925 · #9aa0a2
- Drizzling MistΔE00 1.031 · #989d9f
- Metropolis MoodΔE00 1.069 · #99a1a5
- Soft PumiceΔE00 1.382 · #949ea2
- Aegean SplendourΔE00 1.445 · #9ba0a4
- DustbluΔE00 1.5 · #959ba0
- Pencil SketchΔE00 1.656 · #999d9e
- Grey River RockΔE00 1.923 · #99a1a1
- Coastal Sea FogΔE00 1.995 · #9ea4a6
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.