Astral Nomad
#203943
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#203943
RGB
32, 57, 67
OKLCh
32.9% 0.036 225.5°
CIELAB (D50)
22.3, -7.6, -9.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 97.7; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 12.0 and 13.0 and 15.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.15:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.73:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.15:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#203943
protanopia
#373743 · ΔE00 12.0
deuteranopia
#333343 · ΔE00 13.0
tritanopia
#2e2e67 · ΔE00 15.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isInto the Night at ΔE00 1.573: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Into the NightΔE00 1.573 · #1e3642
- TaraweraΔE00 1.802 · #253c48
- Cool CurrentΔE00 1.923 · #283c44
- Bakos BlueΔE00 2.318 · #273f4b
- Petrol SlumberΔE00 2.479 · #243640
- Elderberry BlackΔE00 2.511 · #1e323b
- Ore Bluish BlackΔE00 2.766 · #1c3339
- Green VogueΔE00 2.85 · #23414e
- Royal NeptuneΔE00 2.87 · #1c3b42
- Firmament BlueΔE00 3.075 · #11353f
- Depths of the NileΔE00 3.111 · #253f4e
- Bay Isle PointeΔE00 3.143 · #214048
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.