Chimaera
#74626d
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
#74626d
RGB
116, 98, 109
OKLCh
51.7% 0.028 340.9°
CIELAB (D50)
43.6, 9.0, -3.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 13% 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 78.3; on black, Lc -23.5. 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 9.0 and 9.4 and 34.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.66:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.71:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.66:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#74626d
protanopia
#64646d · ΔE00 9.0
deuteranopia
#68686d · ΔE00 9.4
tritanopia
#6b6b00 · ΔE00 34.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Kasbah at ΔE00 1.001: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Purple KasbahΔE00 1.001 · #73626f
- Burnt AshΔE00 1.85 · #746572
- Vintage GrapeΔE00 2.628 · #6f636d
- Catnip WoodΔE00 2.774 · #6f6066
- Mystical TripΔE00 3.016 · #7a6a75
- Vibrant VisionΔE00 3.162 · #6c6068
- Fiji CoralΔE00 3.178 · #6b5f68
- Purple DuskΔE00 3.4 · #7c6b76
- ImpromptuΔE00 3.5 · #705f63
- Patina VioletΔE00 3.56 · #695a67
- Rhapsody RapΔE00 3.703 · #74676c
- RumΔE00 3.769 · #716675
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.