Submerged
#4a7d82
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
#4a7d82
RGB
74, 125, 130
OKLCh
55.6% 0.055 203.7°
CIELAB (D50)
49.0, -16.8, -8.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.0; on black, Lc -29.7. 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 18.2 and 19.6 and 24.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.62:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.55:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.62:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4a7d82
protanopia
#797982 · ΔE00 18.2
deuteranopia
#717183 · ΔE00 19.6
tritanopia
#6868d1 · ΔE00 24.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTapestry Teal at ΔE00 1.31: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tapestry TealΔE00 1.31 · #4d7f86
- ParadisoΔE00 1.427 · #488084
- Brittany BlueΔE00 1.495 · #4c7e86
- Enamel Antique GreenΔE00 1.674 · #427f85
- For the Love of HueΔE00 1.739 · #457e87
- Labradorite GreenΔE00 2.122 · #547d80
- Lucky ShamrockΔE00 2.141 · #487a7b
- Shady BlueΔE00 2.474 · #42808a
- Nickel Ore GreenΔE00 2.551 · #537e7e
- Wish Upon a StarΔE00 2.558 · #447f8a
- Grand CanalΔE00 2.758 · #3c797d
- Ocean SlumberΔE00 2.826 · #41767b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.