Silver Mistral
#b4b9b9
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
#b4b9b9
RGB
180, 185, 185
OKLCh
78.2% 0.006 197.0°
CIELAB (D50)
74.7, -1.8, -0.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.4; on black, Lc -64.0. 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 8.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.98:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.58:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.58:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737878 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
#b4b9b9
protanopia
#b8b8b9 · ΔE00 2.7
deuteranopia
#b8b8b9 · ΔE00 2.9
tritanopia
#b7b7c7 · ΔE00 8.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarseilles at ΔE00 0.777: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- MarseillesΔE00 0.777 · #b7bbbb
- French SilverΔE00 0.995 · #b8bcbc
- Monorail SilverΔE00 1.08 · #b8bcbb
- OnlineΔE00 1.086 · #b0b5b5
- Mischief MouseΔE00 1.136 · #b7bab9
- GravityΔE00 1.178 · #b8bcbd
- Samovar SilverΔE00 1.355 · #b8bebe
- Wheels Up!ΔE00 1.438 · #b8bebf
- Oyster MushroomΔE00 1.533 · #b8bcbe
- Rocky ShelterΔE00 1.596 · #b8baba
- Astroscopus GreyΔE00 1.696 · #afb4b6
- Lunar SurfaceΔE00 1.762 · #b6b9b6
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.