Enchanting Ivy
#315955
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
#315955
RGB
49, 89, 85
OKLCh
43.3% 0.046 187.4°
CIELAB (D50)
34.8, -15.6, -2.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.0; on black, Lc -15.1. 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 15.3 and 16.8 and 26.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.80:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.69:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.80:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#315955
protanopia
#565655 · ΔE00 15.3
deuteranopia
#505056 · ΔE00 16.8
tritanopia
#494995 · ΔE00 26.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrystal Ball at ΔE00 1.205: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Crystal BallΔE00 1.205 · #365955
- LacrosseΔE00 1.455 · #2e5c58
- Royal PineΔE00 1.689 · #355e5a
- Hidden DepthsΔE00 1.841 · #305451
- Balsam BranchΔE00 2.888 · #36574e
- Depth ChargeΔE00 2.922 · #355859
- Holly LeafΔE00 2.932 · #2e5a50
- IridescentΔE00 2.975 · #3a5b52
- Sea MossΔE00 3.005 · #2c5252
- Bistro GreenΔE00 3.178 · #395551
- Trekking GreenΔE00 3.179 · #3d5c54
- HunterΔE00 3.194 · #33534b
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.