Anchovy
#756f6b
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
#756f6b
RGB
117, 111, 107
OKLCh
54.6% 0.010 56.2°
CIELAB (D50)
47.3, 1.8, 3.1
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 7% 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 74.3; on black, Lc -27.4. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.95:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.24:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.95:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#756f6b
protanopia
#70706b · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#71716b · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#727255 · ΔE00 11.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAbandoned Playground at ΔE00 0.392: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Abandoned PlaygroundΔE00 0.392 · #746e6a
- NewsprintΔE00 1.134 · #756f6d
- Vintage BootsΔE00 1.185 · #78726e
- HomebushΔE00 1.508 · #726e69
- Rugged SuedeΔE00 1.598 · #78736f
- Hulett OreΔE00 1.703 · #726f6c
- Gauntlet GreyΔE00 1.713 · #78736e
- Light CharcoalΔE00 1.877 · #726e68
- EmuΔE00 1.895 · #756e6d
- Gris VolcanicoΔE00 1.985 · #797371
- Simple SilhouetteΔE00 2.101 · #7a716e
- Grey OwlΔE00 2.152 · #776f67
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.