Mediterranea
#39636a
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
#39636a
RGB
57, 99, 106
OKLCh
47.2% 0.048 209.2°
CIELAB (D50)
39.1, -13.7, -8.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.7; on black, Lc -19.2. 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 17.7 and 21.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.63:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.17:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.63:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#39636a
protanopia
#5f5f6a · ΔE00 16.4
deuteranopia
#59596b · ΔE00 17.7
tritanopia
#5252a9 · ΔE00 21.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSmock Blue at ΔE00 0.731: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Smock BlueΔE00 0.731 · #3b646c
- Deep Sea DiveΔE00 0.871 · #376167
- After the StormΔE00 1.293 · #33616a
- China Green BlueΔE00 1.47 · #3a6468
- PedigreeΔE00 1.781 · #31646e
- WanderlustΔE00 2.327 · #426267
- Arctic NightsΔE00 2.572 · #345c61
- Deep MarineΔE00 2.744 · #2e6469
- Pyrite GreenΔE00 2.842 · #3a6364
- FreedomΔE00 2.947 · #3b5e68
- Jimbaran BayΔE00 2.956 · #3d5d64
- Mordant BlueΔE00 3.028 · #2a6671
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.