Bat Wing
#7e7466
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
#7e7466
RGB
126, 116, 102
OKLCh
56.4% 0.024 76.4°
CIELAB (D50)
49.5, 2.2, 9.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 19 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 21% 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 71.9; on black, Lc -29.8. 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 5.9 and 6.2 and 16.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.59:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.58:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.59:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7e7466
protanopia
#757566 · ΔE00 5.9
deuteranopia
#777766 · ΔE00 6.2
tritanopia
#797931 · ΔE00 16.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHammered Pewter at ΔE00 0.636: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hammered PewterΔE00 0.636 · #7e7567
- Jasmine HollowΔE00 0.94 · #7e7468
- Camel’s HumpΔE00 1.033 · #817667
- Rye BrownΔE00 1.034 · #807465
- RattlesnakeΔE00 1.066 · #7f7667
- Urban GardenΔE00 1.131 · #7c7466
- Astoria GreyΔE00 1.222 · #7e7565
- Smoky TopazΔE00 1.278 · #7e7668
- Coriander OchreΔE00 1.336 · #7e7463
- Carriage StoneΔE00 1.442 · #7e7265
- Dry DockΔE00 1.496 · #817665
- AumbryΔE00 1.499 · #7c7469
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.