Wonder Wine
#635d63
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
#635d63
RGB
99, 93, 99
OKLCh
48.6% 0.012 325.8°
CIELAB (D50)
40.2, 3.4, -2.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 81.9; on black, Lc -20.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 13.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.41:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.28:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.41:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#635d63
protanopia
#5e5e63 · ΔE00 3.5
deuteranopia
#5f5f63 · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#60604f · ΔE00 13.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSlate Mauve at ΔE00 0.624: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Slate MauveΔE00 0.624 · #625c63
- Volcanic GlassΔE00 1.304 · #615c60
- Moire SatinΔE00 1.566 · #665d63
- ExcaliburΔE00 1.573 · #676168
- Stunning ShadeΔE00 1.632 · #676064
- Mauve BrownΔE00 1.977 · #62595f
- Blackwater ParkΔE00 1.991 · #696268
- Tornado CloudΔE00 2.013 · #5e5b60
- Vintage PlumΔE00 2.126 · #675d62
- Baroque GreyΔE00 2.286 · #5f5d64
- Cloak GreyΔE00 2.323 · #605e63
- RabbitΔE00 2.338 · #5f575c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.