Under the Sea
#395d68
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
#395d68
RGB
57, 93, 104
OKLCh
45.6% 0.045 219.3°
CIELAB (D50)
37.1, -11.0, -10.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.7; on black, Lc -17.3. 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 15.1 and 16.2 and 17.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.14:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.94:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.14:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#395d68
protanopia
#5a5a68 · ΔE00 15.1
deuteranopia
#545469 · ΔE00 16.2
tritanopia
#4e4e9f · ΔE00 17.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFreedom at ΔE00 0.579: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- FreedomΔE00 0.579 · #3b5e68
- Jimbaran BayΔE00 1.813 · #3d5d64
- Juniper Berry BlueΔE00 1.933 · #3f626e
- Cadet SongΔE00 1.961 · #3b5964
- Hypothalamus GreyΔE00 2.056 · #415d66
- Autumn NightΔE00 2.251 · #3b5861
- Bermudan BlueΔE00 2.406 · #386171
- Flowing RiverΔE00 2.462 · #335e6f
- KingfisherΔE00 2.483 · #3a5760
- Great VoidΔE00 2.641 · #3b5760
- Night ShiftΔE00 2.739 · #2a5c6a
- Blue SpellΔE00 2.779 · #3b5c6c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.