Granite
#746a5e
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
#746a5e
RGB
116, 106, 94
OKLCh
53.0% 0.022 72.4°
CIELAB (D50)
45.5, 2.5, 8.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 20% 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 76.3; on black, Lc -25.4. 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 6.1 and 6.4 and 17.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.30:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.97:1 — 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
#746a5e
protanopia
#6b6b5e · ΔE00 6.1
deuteranopia
#6d6d5e · ΔE00 6.4
tritanopia
#6f6f27 · ΔE00 17.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGrey Locks at ΔE00 0.755: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Grey LocksΔE00 0.755 · #72695e
- TrailheadΔE00 1.222 · #776c61
- Pony ExpressΔE00 1.246 · #726a60
- Cocoa PowderΔE00 1.342 · #766a5f
- Brainstorm BronzeΔE00 1.359 · #74685a
- Wet SandstoneΔE00 1.511 · #786d5f
- SnakeskinΔE00 1.601 · #786e61
- Grouchy BadgerΔE00 1.678 · #6f675c
- Sleeping GiantΔE00 1.77 · #786d5e
- Toasted WalnutΔE00 1.858 · #746a5a
- CeyloneseΔE00 2.121 · #756858
- BearΔE00 2.142 · #766e65
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.