HueComb

Hipster Hippo

#bfb3ab

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

#bfb3ab

RGB

191, 179, 171

OKLCh

77.5% 0.018 56.1°

CIELAB (D50)

73.8, 3.4, 5.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 11% 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 39.9; on black, Lc -62.4. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.5 and 7.0 and 18.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.05:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.25:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.25:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#80756d 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

#bfb3ab

protanopia

#b4b4ab · ΔE00 6.5

deuteranopia

#b7b7ab · ΔE00 7.0

tritanopia

#b9b97a · ΔE00 18.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTide at ΔE00 1.21: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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