Silky Green
#bdc2bb
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
#bdc2bb
RGB
189, 194, 187
OKLCh
80.8% 0.011 136.6°
CIELAB (D50)
77.9, -2.8, 2.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 5% 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 33.7; on black, Lc -68.9. 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 9.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.81:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.60:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.60:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737872 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
#bdc2bb
protanopia
#c1c1bb · ΔE00 2.6
deuteranopia
#c1c1bb · ΔE00 2.7
tritanopia
#c0c0ca · ΔE00 9.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isComfort Grey at ΔE00 0.512: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Comfort GreyΔE00 0.512 · #bec3bb
- Rock SolidΔE00 0.937 · #bdc2bd
- Nickel PlateΔE00 1.02 · #c1c6bf
- Engagement SilverΔE00 1.298 · #c2c6c0
- Three WishesΔE00 1.367 · #bdc4bb
- Silver Tipped SageΔE00 1.578 · #bfc3bf
- Pewter TrayΔE00 1.76 · #bdc5c0
- SolsticeΔE00 1.812 · #babdb8
- Silent StormΔE00 1.886 · #c3c7bd
- Blithe MoodΔE00 2.018 · #c0c1b9
- MetalΔE00 2.039 · #babfbc
- Keystone GreyΔE00 2.082 · #b6bbb2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.