Mercurial
#b6b0a9
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
#b6b0a9
RGB
182, 176, 169
OKLCh
76.0% 0.012 71.9°
CIELAB (D50)
72.2, 1.3, 4.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 21 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 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 42.2; on black, Lc -60.0. 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 10.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.15:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.77:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.77:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b766f 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
#b6b0a9
protanopia
#b1b1a9 · ΔE00 3.4
deuteranopia
#b2b2a9 · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#b3b394 · ΔE00 10.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isClassic Cool at ΔE00 0.808: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Classic CoolΔE00 0.808 · #b7b2ac
- Rocky BluffsΔE00 0.865 · #b3aea8
- Warm PewterΔE00 0.941 · #b4ada6
- DoveΔE00 0.96 · #b3ada7
- Requisite GreyΔE00 1.116 · #b9b2a9
- City StreetΔE00 1.231 · #bab2ab
- City of BridgesΔE00 1.307 · #b3ada4
- Laid Back GreyΔE00 1.354 · #b3afa7
- PussywillowΔE00 1.54 · #b2ada4
- TimberwolfΔE00 1.596 · #b4aca3
- Soft BeigeΔE00 1.657 · #b9b5af
- Stingray GreyΔE00 1.7 · #b0aba3
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.