Yacht Club
#566062
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#566062
RGB
86, 96, 98
OKLCh
48.1% 0.013 211.1°
CIELAB (D50)
39.9, -3.7, -2.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 15% 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 82.1; on black, Lc -19.8. 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 5.6 and 6.0 and 14.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.47:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.25:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.47:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#566062
protanopia
#5f5f62 · ΔE00 5.6
deuteranopia
#5d5d62 · ΔE00 6.0
tritanopia
#5b5b7a · ΔE00 14.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStream Bed at ΔE00 0.82: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Stream BedΔE00 0.82 · #556061
- SootΔE00 0.939 · #555e5f
- Limousine Grey BlueΔE00 1.079 · #535f62
- Anchor GreyΔE00 1.5 · #596062
- Mostly MetalΔE00 1.549 · #575e5f
- MysteriousΔE00 1.779 · #535e63
- Marine MagicΔE00 1.781 · #515e62
- Greys HarborΔE00 2.039 · #596368
- City RainΔE00 2.178 · #525c61
- ParamountΔE00 2.196 · #5b6161
- Lava RockΔE00 2.258 · #535e64
- GunmetalΔE00 2.415 · #536267
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.