Little Mermaid
#2d454a
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#2d454a
RGB
45, 69, 74
OKLCh
37.3% 0.031 212.1°
CIELAB (D50)
27.5, -8.5, -6.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 93.6; on black, Lc -8.9. 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 11.6 and 12.6 and 19.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.19:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.06:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.19:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2d454a
protanopia
#43434a · ΔE00 11.6
deuteranopia
#3f3f4a · ΔE00 12.6
tritanopia
#3b3b72 · ΔE00 19.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDad’s Coupe at ΔE00 1.087: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dad’s CoupeΔE00 1.087 · #2f484e
- Pallasite BlueΔE00 1.734 · #314a4e
- Japanese IndigoΔE00 1.758 · #264348
- Mysterious WatersΔE00 1.821 · #27454a
- Graphite Black GreenΔE00 2.065 · #32494b
- Ai IndigoΔE00 2.244 · #274447
- Deep River GreenΔE00 2.357 · #2d4243
- Everglade DeckΔE00 2.392 · #25464d
- Ponderosa PineΔE00 2.522 · #29494e
- Liquorice GreenΔE00 2.688 · #2a4041
- Winter BalsamΔE00 2.766 · #314747
- Bay Isle PointeΔE00 2.781 · #214048
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.