Serious Cloud
#7d848b
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
#7d848b
RGB
125, 132, 139
OKLCh
61.0% 0.013 248.0°
CIELAB (D50)
54.7, -1.6, -4.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 8% 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 65.4; on black, Lc -36.2. 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 10.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.79:1 — large text only
Black text
5.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#71787e 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
#7d848b
protanopia
#83838b · ΔE00 3.9
deuteranopia
#82828b · ΔE00 4.2
tritanopia
#81819d · ΔE00 10.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMilestone at ΔE00 1.008: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- MilestoneΔE00 1.008 · #7f848a
- Great Coat GreyΔE00 1.625 · #7f8488
- Adeptus BattlegreyΔE00 1.673 · #7c8286
- Smoky StudioΔE00 2.02 · #7e8590
- Downing SlateΔE00 2.033 · #777f86
- Heavy GreyΔE00 2.095 · #82868a
- WolfΔE00 2.205 · #788389
- Scattered ShowersΔE00 2.251 · #7b8285
- London RoadΔE00 2.445 · #7f878a
- Cold Trade WindsΔE00 2.45 · #7e8692
- SoftwareΔE00 2.582 · #7f8486
- Sea LionΔE00 2.583 · #7f8793
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.