HueComb

Microchip

#babcc0

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

#babcc0

RGB

186, 188, 192

OKLCh

79.5% 0.006 264.5°

CIELAB (D50)

76.2, -0.2, -2.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 6% 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 36.2; on black, Lc -66.2. 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

1.90:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.04:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.04:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#75777a is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#babcc0

protanopia

#bcbcc0 · ΔE00 1.1

deuteranopia

#bbbbc0 · ΔE00 1.2

tritanopia

#bbbbc6 · ΔE00 3.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQuiet Grey at ΔE00 0.821: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Quiet GreyΔE00 0.821 · #b9babd
  • Let It RainΔE00 1.165 · #b6b8bd
  • Silver LinedΔE00 1.229 · #bbbfc3
  • Streamlined GreyΔE00 1.297 · #b9bac0
  • Rocket ManΔE00 1.431 · #bebec3
  • Neo Tokyo GreyΔE00 1.447 · #bec0c2
  • Glacier GreyΔE00 1.551 · #bbbcbd
  • Mithril SilverΔE00 1.599 · #bbbbc1
  • Oyster MushroomΔE00 1.604 · #b8bcbe
  • Rough AsphaltΔE00 1.641 · #bdbebf
  • MoonwalkΔE00 1.725 · #bebec4
  • Blue to YouΔE00 1.737 · #babfc5

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.