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#035568
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#035568
RGB
3, 85, 104
OKLCh
41.6% 0.075 220.0°
CIELAB (D50)
32.6, -17.0, -17.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 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 88.5; on black, Lc -13.7. 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 20.7 and 20.8 and 20.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.50:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#035568
protanopia
#505068 · ΔE00 20.7
deuteranopia
#484869 · ΔE00 20.8
tritanopia
#3d3dab · ΔE00 20.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRainy Morning at ΔE00 0.949: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rainy MorningΔE00 0.949 · #005566
- Sea CreatureΔE00 1.172 · #00586d
- SubmersibleΔE00 1.613 · #00576e
- Deep LagoonΔE00 1.736 · #005a6f
- Connor’s LakefrontΔE00 1.899 · #175a6c
- SubaqueousΔE00 1.982 · #00576f
- OceansideΔE00 1.997 · #015a6b
- CorsairΔE00 2.005 · #18576c
- Raging ThunderstormΔE00 2.048 · #004f63
- Sandalwood Grey BlueΔE00 2.084 · #005160
- Brave New TealΔE00 2.116 · #015b6d
- Abyssal WatersΔE00 2.422 · #005765
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.