HueComb

Smoking Mirror

#a29587

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

#a29587

RGB

162, 149, 135

OKLCh

67.7% 0.025 69.4°

CIELAB (D50)

62.6, 3.2, 9.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 17% 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 55.6; on black, Lc -46.1. 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 7.3 and 7.7 and 18.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.92:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.19:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.19:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#817567 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#a29587

protanopia

#979787 · ΔE00 7.3

deuteranopia

#999987 · ΔE00 7.7

tritanopia

#9c9c45 · ΔE00 18.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSorrel Felt at ΔE00 0.629: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Sorrel FeltΔE00 0.629 · #a49688
  • Studio TaupeΔE00 0.863 · #a59789
  • TuffetΔE00 0.87 · #a59788
  • ZorbaΔE00 0.924 · #a29589
  • ShiitakeΔE00 0.959 · #a5988a
  • Keystone TaupeΔE00 1.162 · #9e9284
  • Stone TerraceΔE00 1.247 · #a09484
  • Time CapsuleΔE00 1.274 · #a59888
  • Earl GreyΔE00 1.454 · #a6978a
  • NorthpointeΔE00 1.621 · #9e9181
  • Coastal VillaΔE00 1.627 · #9e9486
  • Stone GreyΔE00 1.648 · #9f9484

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.