Hunter
#33534b
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
#33534b
RGB
51, 83, 75
OKLCh
41.5% 0.040 176.7°
CIELAB (D50)
32.6, -13.9, 0.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.1; on black, Lc -13.1. 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 13.4 and 14.3 and 26.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.47:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.48:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.47:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#33534b
protanopia
#50504b · ΔE00 13.4
deuteranopia
#4b4b4c · ΔE00 14.3
tritanopia
#454584 · ΔE00 26.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSharknado at ΔE00 0.862: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- SharknadoΔE00 0.862 · #35524a
- Balsam BranchΔE00 1.378 · #36574e
- Midnight CloverΔE00 2.234 · #3c574e
- Leprechaun GreenΔE00 2.331 · #395549
- Highland GreenΔE00 2.458 · #305144
- Bistro GreenΔE00 2.543 · #395551
- Hidden DepthsΔE00 2.588 · #305451
- HypnotismΔE00 2.645 · #32584c
- Peacock HouseΔE00 2.658 · #2e4b44
- IridescentΔE00 2.7 · #3a5b52
- Hunt ClubΔE00 2.801 · #2a4f43
- Crystal BallΔE00 2.871 · #365955
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.