HueComb

Rampart

#bcb7b1

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

#bcb7b1

RGB

188, 183, 177

OKLCh

78.2% 0.010 72.6°

CIELAB (D50)

74.7, 1.0, 3.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 6% 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 38.5; on black, Lc -63.8. 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 8.7 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.99:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.55:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.55:1. 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.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#bcb7b1

protanopia

#b8b8b1 · ΔE00 2.8

deuteranopia

#b8b8b1 · ΔE00 3.0

tritanopia

#b9b9a0 · ΔE00 8.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isXiao Long Bao Dumpling at ΔE00 0.49: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Xiao Long Bao DumplingΔE00 0.49 · #bcb7b0
  • Soft BeigeΔE00 0.803 · #b9b5af
  • Clear ConcreteΔE00 1.06 · #bab6b2
  • Silver DollarΔE00 1.238 · #bdb6ae
  • Dusty WarriorΔE00 1.286 · #bab7b3
  • Classic CoolΔE00 1.361 · #b7b2ac
  • Mindful GreyΔE00 1.646 · #bdb5ad
  • Grey MarbleΔE00 1.709 · #b9b4b1
  • Smooth StoneΔE00 1.739 · #bcb6b3
  • AshesΔE00 1.755 · #b8b5ad
  • Kitty WhiskersΔE00 1.831 · #b7b5b1
  • Michigan AvenueΔE00 1.863 · #b7b4b1

11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.