Martini
#b7a8a3
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
#b7a8a3
RGB
183, 168, 163
OKLCh
74.3% 0.019 39.4°
CIELAB (D50)
70.1, 5.0, 4.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 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 45.3; on black, Lc -56.8. 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 8.0 and 8.7 and 22.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.14:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.14:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#82746f 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
#b7a8a3
protanopia
#aaaaa3 · ΔE00 8.0
deuteranopia
#adada3 · ΔE00 8.7
tritanopia
#b0b061 · ΔE00 22.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLavender Suede at ΔE00 0.869: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lavender SuedeΔE00 0.869 · #b4a5a0
- Embarrassed ShadowΔE00 1.094 · #bbaaa5
- PrestigeΔE00 1.16 · #b8a7a0
- Riveter RoseΔE00 1.195 · #b7a9a2
- Winter CocoaΔE00 1.327 · #baaaa7
- Matte GreyΔE00 1.331 · #b4a8a4
- BarrenΔE00 1.809 · #b9aba3
- Chocolate OatmealΔE00 1.931 · #b5a39c
- ClassicΔE00 2.013 · #bbaaa1
- Turning TablesΔE00 2.023 · #b9aaa1
- Flexible GreyΔE00 2.081 · #b1a3a1
- Cool LavenderΔE00 2.133 · #b3a6a5
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.