HueComb

Brume

#c6c6c2

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

#c6c6c2

RGB

198, 198, 194

OKLCh

82.5% 0.005 106.5°

CIELAB (D50)

79.8, -0.5, 2.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 31 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.8; on black, Lc -72.0. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.71:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.26:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.26:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#777773 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

#c6c6c2

protanopia

#c6c6c2 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#c6c6c2 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#c6c6c2 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBleaches at ΔE00 0.25: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • BleachesΔE00 0.25 · #c7c7c3
  • SnowgloryΔE00 0.5 · #c8c8c4
  • Dolphin TalesΔE00 0.54 · #c7c7c2
  • FortitudeΔE00 0.577 · #c6c5c1
  • Grey SpellΔE00 0.731 · #c8c7c2
  • GranitineΔE00 0.904 · #c5c4c1
  • Traditional GreyΔE00 0.987 · #c7c7c1
  • Silver SateenΔE00 1.035 · #c7c6c0
  • AutonomousΔE00 1.103 · #c6c7c5
  • Grey NickelΔE00 1.252 · #c3c3bd
  • Grey DolphinΔE00 1.27 · #c8c7c5
  • Gentle RainΔE00 1.384 · #cbc9c5

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