Silver Lining
#b8b1a5
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
#b8b1a5
RGB
184, 177, 165
OKLCh
76.3% 0.019 81.3°
CIELAB (D50)
72.5, 1.0, 7.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 26 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 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 41.7; on black, Lc -60.5. 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 10.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.13:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.87:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.87:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d766b 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
#b8b1a5
protanopia
#b2b2a5 · ΔE00 3.9
deuteranopia
#b3b3a5 · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#b4b48b · ΔE00 10.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAsk Me Anything at ΔE00 0.812: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ask Me AnythingΔE00 0.812 · #b8b0a5
- Rushmore GreyΔE00 1.079 · #b7b2a6
- StonelakeΔE00 1.141 · #bab1a3
- Pewter PatterΔE00 1.344 · #bab4a6
- Requisite GreyΔE00 1.416 · #b9b2a9
- Camping TentΔE00 1.434 · #b6afa0
- Amazing GreyΔE00 1.596 · #beb5a9
- Ghost TownΔE00 1.634 · #beb6a8
- Anew GreyΔE00 1.645 · #beb6ab
- TungstenΔE00 1.647 · #b5ac9f
- GreyhoundΔE00 1.687 · #b2aca2
- Marshy HabitatΔE00 1.689 · #b8aea2
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.