Ocean’s Embrace
#306a78
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
#306a78
RGB
48, 106, 120
OKLCh
49.1% 0.064 215.9°
CIELAB (D50)
41.4, -16.4, -13.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.2; on black, Lc -21.7. 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 19.6 and 20.4 and 20.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.07:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.46:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.07:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#306a78
protanopia
#656578 · ΔE00 19.6
deuteranopia
#5d5d79 · ΔE00 20.4
tritanopia
#5454c1 · ΔE00 20.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDiscovery Bay at ΔE00 1.277: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Discovery BayΔE00 1.277 · #276878
- Loon TurquoiseΔE00 1.693 · #2e6676
- Jester BlueΔE00 1.812 · #216879
- Mordant BlueΔE00 2.094 · #2a6671
- AllportsΔE00 2.145 · #1f6a7d
- Hanaasagi BlueΔE00 2.265 · #1d697c
- Grand RapidsΔE00 2.266 · #38707e
- Mammoth MountainΔE00 2.449 · #3b6a7a
- Persian MosaicΔE00 2.462 · #206874
- Kimberley SeaΔE00 2.517 · #386b7d
- Bold BolectionΔE00 2.526 · #1d6575
- PedigreeΔE00 2.566 · #31646e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.