Night Edition
#20586d
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
#20586d
RGB
32, 88, 109
OKLCh
43.3% 0.067 226.4°
CIELAB (D50)
34.5, -13.3, -17.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.0; on black, Lc -15.1. 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 18.6 and 18.7 and 16.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.68:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#20586d
protanopia
#54546d · ΔE00 18.6
deuteranopia
#4d4d6e · ΔE00 18.7
tritanopia
#4343aa · ΔE00 16.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCorsair at ΔE00 0.914: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CorsairΔE00 0.914 · #18576c
- Navy TealΔE00 0.966 · #20576e
- Blue CoralΔE00 1.104 · #1d5a6e
- Bright NautilusΔE00 1.587 · #225869
- Deep Blue SeaΔE00 2.015 · #1a5d72
- JuggernautΔE00 2.039 · #255367
- SubaqueousΔE00 2.114 · #00576f
- Octagon OceanΔE00 2.115 · #085b73
- Legion BlueΔE00 2.143 · #245a6a
- SubmersibleΔE00 2.166 · #00576e
- Newport GreyΔE00 2.199 · #26566e
- WakefieldΔE00 2.221 · #295468
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.