Eiffel Tower
#998e83
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
#998e83
RGB
153, 142, 131
OKLCh
65.3% 0.021 67.5°
CIELAB (D50)
59.8, 2.8, 7.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 14% 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 59.3; on black, Lc -42.4. 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 6.3 and 6.7 and 17.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.21:1 — large text only
Black text
6.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#80756a 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
#998e83
protanopia
#8f8f83 · ΔE00 6.3
deuteranopia
#919183 · ΔE00 6.7
tritanopia
#949451 · ΔE00 17.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isElephant Ear 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.
- Elephant EarΔE00 1.02 · #988f85
- Vintage KhakiΔE00 1.216 · #958b80
- Hammered SilverΔE00 1.586 · #978a7f
- Keystone TaupeΔE00 1.873 · #9e9284
- Art DistrictΔE00 2.005 · #94897c
- Portobello MushroomΔE00 2.034 · #9d928a
- Sultry CastleΔE00 2.118 · #948d84
- Chatura BeigeΔE00 2.146 · #a09287
- Putty YellowΔE00 2.21 · #9d8e7f
- Young ColtΔE00 2.239 · #938c83
- NorthpointeΔE00 2.389 · #9e9181
- Film FestΔE00 2.405 · #93877c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.