Night Market
#4c6177
A blue 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
#4c6177
RGB
76, 97, 119
OKLCh
48.4% 0.044 249.9°
CIELAB (D50)
40.1, -3.7, -15.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 32% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.8; on black, Lc -20.1. 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 10.0 and 10.3 and 9.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.40:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.28:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.40:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4c6177
protanopia
#5f5f77 · ΔE00 10.0
deuteranopia
#5b5b77 · ΔE00 10.3
tritanopia
#57579b · ΔE00 9.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlum Blue at ΔE00 0.671: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Plum BlueΔE00 0.671 · #4b6176
- LoyaltyΔE00 0.821 · #4e6175
- Mountain RiverΔE00 1.281 · #475f77
- English ChannelΔE00 1.535 · #4e6173
- Evening SymphonyΔE00 1.9 · #51637b
- Da BluesΔE00 2.141 · #516172
- PeriscopeΔE00 2.333 · #52677b
- Admiral BlueΔE00 2.475 · #50647f
- Prairie DenimΔE00 2.479 · #516678
- Gloomy SeaΔE00 2.481 · #4a657a
- Scenic BlueΔE00 2.553 · #486275
- StellarΔE00 2.581 · #46647e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.