Nordic Forest
#317362
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
#317362
RGB
49, 115, 98
OKLCh
50.7% 0.073 173.9°
CIELAB (D50)
43.8, -25.4, 2.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.7; on black, Lc -24.0. 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 18.9 and 19.9 and 35.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.59:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.76:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.59:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#317362
protanopia
#6e6e62 · ΔE00 18.9
deuteranopia
#656563 · ΔE00 19.9
tritanopia
#5a5ac3 · ΔE00 35.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMajorelle Gardens at ΔE00 1.437: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Majorelle GardensΔE00 1.437 · #337766
- NomineeΔE00 1.491 · #357567
- Green MorayΔE00 2.377 · #3a7968
- CensusΔE00 2.499 · #327a68
- Antique GreenΔE00 2.567 · #2c6e62
- FirΔE00 2.812 · #3d7965
- MaturityΔE00 2.881 · #38796c
- PinehurstΔE00 3.128 · #2b7b66
- GenoaΔE00 3.131 · #31796d
- Green SleevesΔE00 3.225 · #39766c
- Teal We Meet AgainΔE00 3.25 · #2b7b6c
- Imperial DynastyΔE00 3.297 · #33746b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.