Storm Rising
#4d5a6b
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
#4d5a6b
RGB
77, 90, 107
OKLCh
46.3% 0.032 255.2°
CIELAB (D50)
37.6, -2.0, -11.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 21% 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 84.3; on black, Lc -17.6. 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 6.9 and 7.3 and 10.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.02:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.99:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.02:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4d5a6b
protanopia
#59596b · ΔE00 6.9
deuteranopia
#56566b · ΔE00 7.3
tritanopia
#545484 · ΔE00 10.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMidnight Sun at ΔE00 1.173: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Midnight SunΔE00 1.173 · #4e5a6d
- RainmakerΔE00 1.402 · #485769
- PropertyΔE00 1.57 · #4b5667
- Motor City BlueΔE00 1.612 · #495a6e
- Bluster BlueΔE00 1.661 · #4a5a6f
- Bering SeaΔE00 1.678 · #4b596e
- HarbourΔE00 1.745 · #495867
- Rogue BlueΔE00 2.055 · #4b5764
- Da BluesΔE00 2.642 · #516172
- Blue PlanetΔE00 2.725 · #545e6a
- Vintage IndigoΔE00 2.835 · #505d74
- InkjetΔE00 2.846 · #44556b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.