Inland Waters
#7c939d
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#7c939d
RGB
124, 147, 157
OKLCh
64.9% 0.030 226.0°
CIELAB (D50)
59.4, -6.7, -8.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 24% 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 59.5; on black, Lc -42.3. 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 10.7 and 11.5 and 15.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.22:1 — large text only
Black text
6.52:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.52:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#647a84 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
#7c939d
protanopia
#91919d · ΔE00 10.7
deuteranopia
#8d8d9d · ΔE00 11.5
tritanopia
#8888cd · ΔE00 15.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWethers Field at ΔE00 0.339: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Wethers FieldΔE00 0.339 · #7d949e
- Silent TideΔE00 0.923 · #7c929a
- Bird BlueΔE00 0.953 · #7b929e
- Kingfisher GreyΔE00 1.137 · #7e969f
- PoolhouseΔE00 1.277 · #8095a0
- Ebb TideΔE00 1.5 · #7893a0
- Sidewalk GreyΔE00 1.584 · #7b8f99
- Sheltered BayΔE00 1.825 · #758f9a
- Clouded SkyΔE00 2.377 · #7d93a2
- Shaker BlueΔE00 2.531 · #748c96
- Fine Tuned BlueΔE00 2.56 · #84989e
- Denim DriftΔE00 2.676 · #7c8d96
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.