Dove
#b3ada7
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
#b3ada7
RGB
179, 173, 167
OKLCh
75.1% 0.011 67.7°
CIELAB (D50)
71.1, 1.4, 3.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 19 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 7% 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 43.8; on black, Lc -58.4. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7670 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
#b3ada7
protanopia
#aeaea7 · ΔE00 3.4
deuteranopia
#afafa7 · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#b0b092 · ΔE00 10.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRocky Bluffs at ΔE00 0.574: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rocky BluffsΔE00 0.574 · #b3aea8
- Warm PewterΔE00 0.617 · #b4ada6
- MercurialΔE00 0.96 · #b6b0a9
- Slate PebbleΔE00 1.26 · #b4ada9
- Autumn GreyΔE00 1.342 · #b2aba7
- Stingray GreyΔE00 1.406 · #b0aba3
- Classic CoolΔE00 1.438 · #b7b2ac
- City of BridgesΔE00 1.461 · #b3ada4
- TimberwolfΔE00 1.559 · #b4aca3
- Smoky WingsΔE00 1.565 · #b2aca9
- Laid Back GreyΔE00 1.675 · #b3afa7
- PussywillowΔE00 1.683 · #b2ada4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.