Murmur
#c7cfc7
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
#c7cfc7
RGB
199, 207, 199
OKLCh
84.6% 0.014 145.5°
CIELAB (D50)
82.3, -3.9, 3.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 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 26.9; on black, Lc -76.1. 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 13.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.59:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#717971 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
#c7cfc7
protanopia
#cecec7 · ΔE00 3.9
deuteranopia
#cdcdc7 · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#cbcbde · ΔE00 13.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isInfusion at ΔE00 0.944: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- InfusionΔE00 0.944 · #c8d0ca
- Pale LodenΔE00 1.237 · #ccd2ca
- Fountain FoamΔE00 1.238 · #c6d0c6
- Celadon GlazeΔE00 1.259 · #ccd4cb
- Silver GrassΔE00 1.325 · #c6cec3
- RainwashedΔE00 1.462 · #c2cdc5
- Foggy MistΔE00 1.501 · #c8d1cc
- Washed GreenΔE00 1.564 · #ccd1c8
- CipollinoΔE00 1.572 · #c8cec3
- Fundy BayΔE00 1.675 · #cdd2c9
- Blue FlowerΔE00 1.731 · #c8d2cd
- Knightsbridge MistΔE00 1.787 · #c2ccc7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.