Pacific
#24646b
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
#24646b
RGB
36, 100, 107
OKLCh
46.6% 0.065 205.3°
CIELAB (D50)
38.6, -19.2, -10.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.0; on black, Lc -18.9. 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 20.2 and 21.5 and 25.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.75:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.11:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.75:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#24646b
protanopia
#5f5f6b · ΔE00 20.2
deuteranopia
#57576c · ΔE00 21.5
tritanopia
#4d4db8 · ΔE00 25.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSeamount at ΔE00 1.391: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SeamountΔE00 1.391 · #15646d
- Deep MarineΔE00 1.41 · #2e6469
- Gulf HarbourΔE00 2.06 · #225e64
- Mordant BlueΔE00 2.214 · #2a6671
- Peacock TailΔE00 2.319 · #01636d
- Wakame GreenΔE00 2.347 · #00656e
- Persian MosaicΔE00 2.409 · #206874
- Kingfisher BrightΔE00 2.469 · #096872
- Turkish AquaΔE00 2.529 · #006169
- Trouser BlueΔE00 2.598 · #00666d
- Tropical SkiesΔE00 2.647 · #155d66
- PedigreeΔE00 2.771 · #31646e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.