Knit Cardigan
#6d6c5f
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
#6d6c5f
RGB
109, 108, 95
OKLCh
52.8% 0.020 103.5°
CIELAB (D50)
45.4, -1.5, 7.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 18% 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 76.4; on black, Lc -25.3. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
5.30:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.96:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.30:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6d6c5f
protanopia
#6c6c5f · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#6c6c5f · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#6c6c5b · ΔE00 1.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRiver God at ΔE00 0.584: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- River GodΔE00 0.584 · #6c6c5f
- Gladiator GreyΔE00 0.688 · #6e6c5e
- ArchitectΔE00 0.815 · #6f6d5f
- ThunderousΔE00 1.376 · #6d6c62
- Bonsai TrunkΔE00 1.425 · #6c6d62
- King’s CourtΔE00 1.446 · #706d5e
- Duck WillowΔE00 1.489 · #6a695a
- FlintΔE00 1.509 · #716e61
- Brandenburg GateΔE00 1.522 · #706f64
- Coastline TrailΔE00 1.732 · #6e6c5b
- NaturalismΔE00 1.86 · #68685d
- ArchaeologyΔE00 1.967 · #6e6a5e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.