Metallic
#bcc3c7
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#bcc3c7
RGB
188, 195, 199
OKLCh
81.3% 0.010 232.4°
CIELAB (D50)
78.3, -1.9, -2.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 8% 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 33.0; on black, Lc -69.7. 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 10.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.78:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.77:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.77:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#71787b 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
#bcc3c7
protanopia
#c2c2c7 · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#c1c1c7 · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#c0c0da · ΔE00 10.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSkyline Steel at ΔE00 0.933: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Skyline SteelΔE00 0.933 · #b9c0c3
- IciclesΔE00 0.997 · #bcc5c9
- KryptonΔE00 1.137 · #b8c0c3
- Distant StarΔE00 1.145 · #bac1c3
- Grey FrostΔE00 1.161 · #b8bfc2
- Bottlefly WingsΔE00 1.238 · #bfc4c9
- Shallow SkiesΔE00 1.517 · #bcc2c3
- Galactic TintΔE00 1.629 · #c0c4c6
- Silver LinedΔE00 1.687 · #bbbfc3
- Blue to YouΔE00 1.768 · #babfc5
- Gris NáuticoΔE00 1.955 · #bcc7cb
- Wheels Up!ΔE00 1.972 · #b8bebf
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.