Moorland
#a6ab9b
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
#a6ab9b
RGB
166, 171, 155
OKLCh
73.3% 0.023 121.1°
CIELAB (D50)
69.2, -4.0, 7.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 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 46.4; on black, Lc -55.6. 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 9.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.35:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#74796a 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
#a6ab9b
protanopia
#aaaa9b · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#aaaa9b · ΔE00 2.6
tritanopia
#a9a9ab · ΔE00 9.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlpine Summer at ΔE00 0.794: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Alpine SummerΔE00 0.794 · #a5a99a
- Garden PromenadeΔE00 0.964 · #a4a99b
- MeditationΔE00 1.138 · #a9ac9d
- Mountain LichenΔE00 1.179 · #a7ae9e
- Wandering WillowΔE00 1.655 · #a6a897
- Desert PearΔE00 1.794 · #aaae9a
- Sunset MeadowΔE00 1.802 · #a5a796
- Simply SageΔE00 1.892 · #a7a996
- MoonwortΔE00 1.966 · #a5ae9f
- Coastal PlainΔE00 2.047 · #9fa694
- StillΔE00 2.227 · #adaf9c
- Moss AgateΔE00 2.333 · #a0aa9a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.