Highlands
#449084
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#449084
RGB
68, 144, 132
OKLCh
60.2% 0.078 181.9°
CIELAB (D50)
54.7, -27.0, -1.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.1; on black, Lc -36.6. 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 20.3 and 22.4 and 34.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.77:1 — large text only
Black text
5.57:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.57:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#368377 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#449084
protanopia
#8a8a84 · ΔE00 20.3
deuteranopia
#808085 · ΔE00 22.4
tritanopia
#7272f3 · ΔE00 34.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLochinvar at ΔE00 0.528: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- LochinvarΔE00 0.528 · #489084
- Dusty TealΔE00 1.146 · #4c9085
- Royal PalmΔE00 1.542 · #418d84
- Spa GreenΔE00 2.396 · #529182
- PerkyΔE00 2.475 · #408e7c
- Thermal SpringΔE00 3.12 · #589489
- Martian CeruleanΔE00 3.168 · #57958b
- Copper TurquoiseΔE00 3.254 · #38887f
- Crisp LettuceΔE00 3.404 · #4f9785
- FiddlerΔE00 3.497 · #5a9589
- Winter GreenΔE00 3.502 · #48907b
- Green AgateΔE00 3.515 · #52928d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.