Lacrosse
#2e5c58
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
#2e5c58
RGB
46, 92, 88
OKLCh
44.1% 0.051 188.1°
CIELAB (D50)
35.7, -17.3, -2.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.1; on black, Lc -16.0. 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 16.4 and 18.2 and 27.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.53:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.79:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.53:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2e5c58
protanopia
#585858 · ΔE00 16.4
deuteranopia
#525259 · ΔE00 18.2
tritanopia
#4a4a9d · ΔE00 27.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRoyal Pine at ΔE00 1.364: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Royal PineΔE00 1.364 · #355e5a
- Enchanting IvyΔE00 1.455 · #315955
- Verdant ForestΔE00 2.274 · #28615d
- Crystal BallΔE00 2.474 · #365955
- Calypso GreenΔE00 2.569 · #2e5f60
- Holly LeafΔE00 2.873 · #2e5a50
- Strong SageΔE00 3.014 · #2b6460
- Forest BiomeΔE00 3.063 · #1d5952
- Hidden DepthsΔE00 3.193 · #305451
- BayberryΔE00 3.344 · #275a5d
- Moor Pond GreenΔE00 3.394 · #3c6461
- AllianceΔE00 3.473 · #2b655f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.