Armour
#74857f
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#74857f
RGB
116, 133, 127
OKLCh
60.1% 0.022 172.3°
CIELAB (D50)
54.0, -7.4, 1.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 66.3; on black, Lc -35.3. 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 8.2 and 8.7 and 21.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.89:1 — large text only
Black text
5.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6a7a75 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
#74857f
protanopia
#83837f · ΔE00 8.2
deuteranopia
#80807f · ΔE00 8.7
tritanopia
#7d7da8 · ΔE00 21.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDwarf Spruce at ΔE00 1.066: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dwarf SpruceΔE00 1.066 · #71847d
- Echo ParkΔE00 1.325 · #758883
- Juniper AshΔE00 1.849 · #798884
- LimerickΔE00 2.031 · #76857b
- Studio Blue GreenΔE00 2.103 · #6d817b
- Grey Flannel SuitΔE00 2.315 · #788480
- PortsmouthΔE00 2.395 · #768482
- Chinois GreenΔE00 2.743 · #7c8c87
- Rookwood Blue GreenΔE00 2.784 · #738478
- Calabash ClashΔE00 2.815 · #728478
- Blueridge FirΔE00 2.831 · #6f8479
- Cigar SmokeΔE00 2.849 · #78857a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.