Made in the Shade
#6b717a
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
#6b717a
RGB
107, 113, 122
OKLCh
54.7% 0.016 258.4°
CIELAB (D50)
47.4, -0.9, -5.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 8% 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 74.1; on black, Lc -27.6. 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 8.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.92:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.27:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.92:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6b717a
protanopia
#70707a · ΔE00 3.5
deuteranopia
#6f6f7a · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#6e6e89 · ΔE00 8.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDraw Your Sword at ΔE00 0.613: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Draw Your SwordΔE00 0.613 · #6c7179
- Dapper GreyhoundΔE00 0.963 · #697078
- Dolphin DreamΔE00 1.23 · #6b6f78
- BackwaterΔE00 1.388 · #687078
- Raven GreyΔE00 1.589 · #6f747b
- Spitsbergen BlueΔE00 1.644 · #6f757d
- Silver HillΔE00 1.659 · #6d747b
- Granite CanyonΔE00 1.706 · #6c6f78
- Hong Kong SkylineΔE00 1.845 · #676e7a
- PurebredΔE00 2.094 · #67707d
- Pompeii AshΔE00 2.153 · #6c757d
- BilberryΔE00 2.555 · #71777e
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.