Sphinx
#a99593
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
#a99593
RGB
169, 149, 147
OKLCh
68.7% 0.024 24.6°
CIELAB (D50)
63.5, 7.4, 3.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 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 54.4; on black, Lc -47.4. 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 10.2 and 11.3 and 29.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.84:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.41:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.41:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#857271 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
#a99593
protanopia
#979793 · ΔE00 10.2
deuteranopia
#9b9b93 · ΔE00 11.3
tritanopia
#9f9f07 · ΔE00 29.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCortex at ΔE00 0.482: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CortexΔE00 0.482 · #a99592
- Smoky SunriseΔE00 1.219 · #aa9793
- MonkeypodΔE00 1.324 · #ac9894
- Heirloom OrchidΔE00 1.72 · #ae9999
- TrilliumΔE00 1.773 · #a89896
- TribecaΔE00 1.779 · #a4918d
- LavenbrunΔE00 1.786 · #af9894
- Fall HeliotropeΔE00 1.88 · #a49491
- Roman SnailΔE00 2.094 · #a49593
- Tricycle TaupeΔE00 2.208 · #b09994
- Powdered BrickΔE00 2.261 · #ac9b9b
- Heirloom QuiltΔE00 2.453 · #ab979a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.