Panorama
#327a88
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
#327a88
RGB
50, 122, 136
OKLCh
54.0% 0.074 212.5°
CIELAB (D50)
47.2, -19.9, -14.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.8; on black, Lc -27.9. 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 21.6 and 22.1 and 23.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.91:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.27:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.91:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#327a88
protanopia
#757588 · ΔE00 21.6
deuteranopia
#6b6b89 · ΔE00 22.1
tritanopia
#5f5fdf · ΔE00 23.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMysterious Blue at ΔE00 1.639: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mysterious BlueΔE00 1.639 · #3e7a85
- Sea QuestΔE00 1.713 · #3e7984
- BermudaΔE00 2.13 · #1b7d8d
- AdventureΔE00 2.659 · #34788c
- Biscay BayΔE00 2.744 · #097988
- LarkspurΔE00 2.879 · #3c7d90
- Wish Upon a StarΔE00 2.898 · #447f8a
- PagodaΔE00 3.025 · #127e93
- For the Love of HueΔE00 3.055 · #457e87
- Shady BlueΔE00 3.064 · #42808a
- Metallic SeaweedΔE00 3.092 · #0a7e8c
- Thousand HerbΔE00 3.102 · #317589
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.