Plumbeous
#5c7287
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
#5c7287
RGB
92, 114, 135
OKLCh
54.2% 0.042 247.4°
CIELAB (D50)
46.9, -4.4, -14.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses only 29% 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 74.5; on black, Lc -27.2. 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 10.4 and 10.8 and 9.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.99:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.21:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.99:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5c7287
protanopia
#707087 · ΔE00 10.4
deuteranopia
#6c6c87 · ΔE00 10.8
tritanopia
#6868af · ΔE00 9.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLayers of Ocean at ΔE00 0.478: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Layers of OceanΔE00 0.478 · #5c7186
- Silver BlueberryΔE00 0.792 · #5b7085
- Lost AtlantisΔE00 0.887 · #5f7388
- Arrowhead LakeΔE00 1.322 · #58728a
- Thundering CloudsΔE00 1.337 · #597388
- Blueberry DreamΔE00 1.583 · #586e84
- Captains BlueΔE00 1.829 · #557088
- Retro-Colonial BlueΔE00 1.85 · #5a758a
- Sausalito PortΔE00 1.908 · #5d6f85
- Glide TimeΔE00 1.935 · #5d6f80
- Copen BlueΔE00 2.083 · #57748d
- Deadwind PassΔE00 2.173 · #596d7f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.