Caveman
#625c58
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
#625c58
RGB
98, 92, 88
OKLCh
47.9% 0.010 56.1°
CIELAB (D50)
39.5, 1.9, 3.2
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 9% 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 82.6; on black, Lc -19.3. 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 12.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.58:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.19:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.58:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#625c58
protanopia
#5d5d58 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#5e5e58 · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#5f5f41 · ΔE00 12.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMountain Quail at ΔE00 0.729: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mountain QuailΔE00 0.729 · #605b57
- Solid EmpireΔE00 0.897 · #635c59
- Stone’s ThrowΔE00 1.189 · #605c58
- Deep WalnutΔE00 1.443 · #615d58
- BarkΔE00 1.479 · #5f5854
- LaharΔE00 1.611 · #5f5855
- Oswego TeaΔE00 1.767 · #665d59
- Manor HouseΔE00 1.863 · #665d57
- IroncladΔE00 1.915 · #615c55
- Night Gull GreyΔE00 1.932 · #615d5c
- Grey WerewolfΔE00 1.952 · #625f5c
- Waza BearΔE00 2.078 · #5e5a59
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.