Philodendron
#116356
A cyan 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
#116356
RGB
17, 99, 86
OKLCh
45.0% 0.077 179.0°
CIELAB (D50)
37.2, -27.0, 0.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 94% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.4; 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 20.0 and 21.7 and 34.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.14:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.94:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.14:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#116356
protanopia
#5e5e56 · ΔE00 20.0
deuteranopia
#555557 · ΔE00 21.7
tritanopia
#4949b3 · ΔE00 34.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDancing Peacock at ΔE00 1.23: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dancing PeacockΔE00 1.23 · #016459
- Humboldt RedwoodsΔE00 1.243 · #1f6357
- Dancing DragonflyΔE00 1.318 · #006658
- Arizona StoneΔE00 1.411 · #00655a
- Eucalyptus GreenΔE00 1.625 · #1e675a
- Alpine GreenΔE00 1.783 · #005f50
- Piney LakeΔE00 1.915 · #006655
- Bella VistaΔE00 2.043 · #0b695b
- EdenΔE00 2.142 · #266255
- EmbracingΔE00 2.474 · #246453
- Evergreen ForestΔE00 2.5 · #0e695f
- Fresh Ivy GreenΔE00 2.517 · #006a5b
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.