Ocean Slumber
#41767b
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
#41767b
RGB
65, 118, 123
OKLCh
53.1% 0.057 203.5°
CIELAB (D50)
46.1, -17.4, -8.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 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 75.2; on black, Lc -26.5. 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 18.6 and 20.0 and 24.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.12:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.10:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.12:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#41767b
protanopia
#72727b · ΔE00 18.6
deuteranopia
#6a6a7c · ΔE00 20.0
tritanopia
#6060c9 · ΔE00 24.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMing at ΔE00 1.424: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- MingΔE00 1.424 · #407577
- Cool WatersΔE00 1.659 · #487678
- Grand CanalΔE00 1.688 · #3c797d
- Diver’s EdenΔE00 1.761 · #3a797e
- Tropical RainΔE00 2.214 · #447777
- PeabodyΔE00 2.227 · #3f7074
- Thunderhawk BlueΔE00 2.282 · #417074
- Lucky ShamrockΔE00 2.344 · #487a7b
- Sea QuestΔE00 2.669 · #3e7984
- Vining IvyΔE00 2.726 · #4b7378
- SubmergedΔE00 2.826 · #4a7d82
- Mysterious BlueΔE00 2.826 · #3e7a85
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.