Chain Mail
#81777f
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
#81777f
RGB
129, 119, 127
OKLCh
58.1% 0.017 332.4°
CIELAB (D50)
51.1, 5.1, -2.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 69.8; on black, Lc -31.9. 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 5.3 and 5.6 and 20.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.30:1 — large text only
Black text
4.88:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.88:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e747c 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
#81777f
protanopia
#78787f · ΔE00 5.3
deuteranopia
#7a7a7f · ΔE00 5.6
tritanopia
#7c7c5c · ΔE00 20.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlush Velvet at ΔE00 1.785: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Plush VelvetΔE00 1.785 · #7e737d
- Honed SteelΔE00 1.982 · #867c83
- Cement FeetΔE00 2.004 · #7b737b
- Jubilee GreyΔE00 2.021 · #7c7379
- Shadow DanceΔE00 2.479 · #877d83
- Grey RidgeΔE00 2.479 · #847986
- SoulmateΔE00 2.665 · #85777b
- Lavender MosaicΔE00 2.851 · #857e86
- Storm FrontΔE00 2.916 · #807a7e
- Magic DustΔE00 2.942 · #817c85
- High NoteΔE00 3.142 · #867a88
- IronbreakerΔE00 3.149 · #887f85
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.