Shadows of Time
#018466
A cyan that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#018466
RGB
1, 132, 102
OKLCh
54.5% 0.108 169.6°
CIELAB (D50)
48.7, -37.9, 7.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.9; on black, Lc -29.8. 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 21.2 and 22.2 and 41.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.67:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.49:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.67:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#018466
protanopia
#7d7d66 · ΔE00 21.2
deuteranopia
#707068 · ΔE00 22.2
tritanopia
#6060ea · ΔE00 41.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBosphorus at ΔE00 0.658: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BosphorusΔE00 0.658 · #008468
- Accent Green BlueΔE00 1.304 · #208468
- Spectral GreenΔE00 1.334 · #008664
- Celtic QueenΔE00 1.553 · #00886b
- Generic ViridianΔE00 2.261 · #007f66
- ViridisΔE00 2.35 · #00846d
- Emperor’s SilkΔE00 2.433 · #00816a
- ElfΔE00 2.447 · #1b8a6b
- Deep SeaΔE00 2.482 · #167e65
- Verdant GreenΔE00 2.557 · #167d60
- Carolina GreenΔE00 2.561 · #008b6d
- Spanish ViridianΔE00 2.603 · #007f5c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.