Persian Mosaic
#206874
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
#206874
RGB
32, 104, 116
OKLCh
47.9% 0.071 210.8°
CIELAB (D50)
40.1, -19.6, -13.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 86% 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 81.4; on black, Lc -20.5. 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 21.3 and 22.1 and 24.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.38:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.29:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.38:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#206874
protanopia
#636374 · ΔE00 21.3
deuteranopia
#5a5a75 · ΔE00 22.1
tritanopia
#4f4fc3 · ΔE00 24.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMordant Blue at ΔE00 1.382: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mordant BlueΔE00 1.382 · #2a6671
- Cotton IndigoΔE00 1.564 · #066976
- Bankson LakeΔE00 1.665 · #016876
- Mary BlueΔE00 1.882 · #006a77
- Teal FuryΔE00 1.906 · #1a6c76
- Bold BolectionΔE00 1.977 · #1d6575
- Kingfisher BrightΔE00 2.028 · #096872
- Teal With ItΔE00 2.091 · #01697a
- Jester BlueΔE00 2.14 · #216879
- Discovery BayΔE00 2.148 · #276878
- SeamountΔE00 2.197 · #15646d
- Green SpoolΔE00 2.352 · #006474
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.