Smokescreen
#5e5755
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#5e5755
RGB
94, 87, 85
OKLCh
46.3% 0.010 36.5°
CIELAB (D50)
37.6, 2.6, 2.2
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 6% 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 84.5; on black, Lc -17.5. 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 14.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.07:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.97:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.07:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5e5755
protanopia
#585855 · ΔE00 4.4
deuteranopia
#595955 · ΔE00 4.7
tritanopia
#5b5b39 · ΔE00 14.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThunderstruck at ΔE00 0.553: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ThunderstruckΔE00 0.553 · #5f5755
- LaharΔE00 0.675 · #5f5855
- BarkΔE00 1.209 · #5f5854
- Wolf’s FurΔE00 1.248 · #5c5451
- Catskill BrownΔE00 1.658 · #595452
- RixΔE00 1.782 · #605655
- Pure ZealΔE00 1.816 · #615753
- Timber BrownΔE00 1.819 · #605652
- Solid EmpireΔE00 1.867 · #635c59
- Equestrian LeatherΔE00 1.887 · #5b5652
- Waza BearΔE00 1.921 · #5e5a59
- TundoraΔE00 2.149 · #585452
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.