Ming
#407577
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
#407577
RGB
64, 117, 119
OKLCh
52.7% 0.057 198.7°
CIELAB (D50)
45.6, -18.0, -6.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.7; on black, Lc -26.0. 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 18.3 and 20.0 and 26.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.21:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.03:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.21:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#407577
protanopia
#717177 · ΔE00 18.3
deuteranopia
#696978 · ΔE00 20.0
tritanopia
#5f5fc6 · ΔE00 26.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTropical Rain at ΔE00 1.199: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tropical RainΔE00 1.199 · #447777
- Ocean SlumberΔE00 1.424 · #41767b
- Cool WatersΔE00 1.53 · #487678
- Surf GreenΔE00 1.766 · #427573
- Grand CanalΔE00 1.851 · #3c797d
- PeabodyΔE00 2.098 · #3f7074
- Lucky ShamrockΔE00 2.129 · #487a7b
- Diver’s EdenΔE00 2.143 · #3a797e
- Thunderhawk BlueΔE00 2.244 · #417074
- Faded JadeΔE00 2.293 · #427977
- Jungle NoisesΔE00 2.878 · #36716f
- Whaling WatersΔE00 2.89 · #2e7176
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.