Opium
#987e7e
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#987e7e
RGB
152, 126, 126
OKLCh
61.7% 0.032 18.1°
CIELAB (D50)
55.3, 10.3, 4.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 13% 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 64.9; on black, Lc -36.7. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 12.6 and 14.4 and 31.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.74:1 — large text only
Black text
5.62:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.62:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8a7171 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
#987e7e
protanopia
#81817e · ΔE00 12.6
deuteranopia
#86867d · ΔE00 14.4
tritanopia
#8c8c00 · ΔE00 31.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTwilight Mauve at ΔE00 0.967: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Twilight MauveΔE00 0.967 · #977d7f
- ChocolatyΔE00 1.865 · #937979
- Warplock Bronze MetalΔE00 2.329 · #927d7b
- AntlerΔE00 2.393 · #957a76
- Mushroom BasketΔE00 2.457 · #977a76
- PlumvilleΔE00 2.498 · #9e8185
- MaudΔE00 2.649 · #988286
- NeapolitanΔE00 2.708 · #9b7a78
- California Dreamin’ΔE00 2.768 · #93807f
- Cafe OleΔE00 2.807 · #9a7f79
- MystereΔE00 2.813 · #98817c
- BazaarΔE00 2.903 · #8f7777
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.