HueComb

Gothic

#698890

A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#698890

RGB

105, 136, 144

OKLCh

60.6% 0.037 215.3°

CIELAB (D50)

54.5, -9.9, -8.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 35% 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 65.5; on black, Lc -36.1. 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 13.3 and 14.4 and 18.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.80:1 — large text only

Black text

5.53:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.53:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5d7c84 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#698890

protanopia

#858590 · ΔE00 13.3

deuteranopia

#808091 · ΔE00 14.4

tritanopia

#7a7acb · ΔE00 18.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Shoal at ΔE00 1.559: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.