Classic Movie
#728284
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
#728284
RGB
114, 130, 132
OKLCh
59.4% 0.019 205.8°
CIELAB (D50)
53.1, -5.7, -3.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 19% 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 67.4; on black, Lc -34.3. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.0 and 8.6 and 18.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.01:1 — large text only
Black text
5.24:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.24:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6a7a7c is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#728284
protanopia
#808084 · ΔE00 8.0
deuteranopia
#7e7e84 · ΔE00 8.6
tritanopia
#7a7aa9 · ΔE00 18.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTrooper at ΔE00 1.16: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- TrooperΔE00 1.16 · #708386
- Stormy SeaΔE00 1.217 · #6e8082
- Courtyard BlueΔE00 1.366 · #718084
- AuroMetalSaurusΔE00 1.456 · #6e7f80
- Adrift at SeaΔE00 1.793 · #758181
- Shadow EffectΔE00 2.019 · #788788
- Blue BloodΔE00 2.13 · #6b7f81
- PortsmouthΔE00 2.271 · #768482
- Moon TideΔE00 2.28 · #6f8588
- Coney IslandΔE00 2.401 · #6d7e7d
- Rough RideΔE00 2.439 · #7a8687
- Hidden PeakΔE00 2.601 · #727d7f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.