Ruins of Metal
#9b8b84
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
#9b8b84
RGB
155, 139, 132
OKLCh
64.9% 0.022 45.1°
CIELAB (D50)
59.2, 5.3, 6.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 60.1; on black, Lc -41.7. 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 8.9 and 9.6 and 24.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.27:1 — large text only
Black text
6.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#83746d 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
#9b8b84
protanopia
#8d8d84 · ΔE00 8.9
deuteranopia
#909084 · ΔE00 9.6
tritanopia
#939328 · ΔE00 24.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWarm Grey at ΔE00 1.445: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Warm GreyΔE00 1.445 · #978a84
- Cantankerous HippoΔE00 1.974 · #96887f
- Cheyenne RockΔE00 2.081 · #9f918a
- SatelliteΔE00 2.086 · #9f8d89
- GinnezumiΔE00 2.242 · #97867c
- TalaveraΔE00 2.381 · #a0928b
- Channel Seal GreyΔE00 2.535 · #a0928d
- EthereaΔE00 2.539 · #a3928c
- Abandoned MansionΔE00 2.554 · #94877e
- Irish TeaΔE00 2.761 · #a38d86
- Deer GodΔE00 2.801 · #96847a
- Hammered SilverΔE00 2.836 · #978a7f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.