Silver Surfer
#7e7d88
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
#7e7d88
RGB
126, 125, 136
OKLCh
59.4% 0.017 290.1°
CIELAB (D50)
52.8, 2.1, -5.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- 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 67.8; on black, Lc -33.8. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
4.06:1 — large text only
Black text
5.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#777680 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
#7e7d88
protanopia
#7d7d88 · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#7d7d88 · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#7d7d85 · ΔE00 1.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDark Topaz at ΔE00 2.149: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Dark TopazΔE00 2.149 · #817c87
- In the TwilightΔE00 2.26 · #84838e
- Magic DustΔE00 2.309 · #817c85
- Soft SavvyΔE00 2.402 · #837e87
- InfamousΔE00 2.448 · #777985
- Formal AffairΔE00 2.662 · #848391
- Modest MauveΔE00 2.985 · #838492
- Silver FiligreeΔE00 3.064 · #7f7c81
- MetroΔE00 3.167 · #828393
- ClairvoyanceΔE00 3.189 · #838493
- Mecha MetalΔE00 3.19 · #848393
- Carbon FootprintΔE00 3.395 · #7b808b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.