Foggy Plum
#b7a5ad
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
#b7a5ad
RGB
183, 165, 173
OKLCh
74.0% 0.024 349.0°
CIELAB (D50)
69.5, 7.8, -1.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 12% 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 46.0; on black, Lc -56.0. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.4 and 8.9 and 29.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.33:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.00:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.00:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#83727a 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
#b7a5ad
protanopia
#a7a7ad · ΔE00 8.4
deuteranopia
#ababad · ΔE00 8.9
tritanopia
#aeae63 · ΔE00 29.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPale Poppy at ΔE00 1.792: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pale PoppyΔE00 1.792 · #bca8ad
- Cold PinkΔE00 1.908 · #bca5ad
- Buckwheat MauveΔE00 1.939 · #b9a4b0
- Magical MauveΔE00 2.126 · #baa3a9
- Lavender ScentΔE00 2.425 · #bfacb1
- ResplendentΔE00 2.564 · #b4a8b1
- Lavender CloudΔE00 2.61 · #b8abb1
- Castle MistΔE00 2.708 · #bdaeb7
- Ramadi GreyΔE00 2.884 · #b7a9ac
- Violet IceΔE00 2.935 · #c0a9ad
- Angel FingerΔE00 2.958 · #b8acb4
- Bedroom PlumΔE00 3.074 · #c3acb2
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.