Majorelle Gardens
#337766
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
#337766
RGB
51, 119, 102
OKLCh
52.0% 0.074 174.4°
CIELAB (D50)
45.3, -25.9, 2.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 76.1; on black, Lc -25.6. 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 19.1 and 20.2 and 35.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.29:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.97:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.29:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#337766
protanopia
#727266 · ΔE00 19.1
deuteranopia
#696967 · ΔE00 20.2
tritanopia
#5d5dca · ΔE00 35.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCensus at ΔE00 1.117: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- CensusΔE00 1.117 · #327a68
- Green MorayΔE00 1.157 · #3a7968
- NomineeΔE00 1.32 · #357567
- Nordic ForestΔE00 1.437 · #317362
- MaturityΔE00 1.866 · #38796c
- FirΔE00 1.989 · #3d7965
- Teal We Meet AgainΔE00 2.068 · #2b7b6c
- PinehurstΔE00 2.087 · #2b7b66
- GenoaΔE00 2.243 · #31796d
- Trans TasmanΔE00 2.651 · #307d67
- Green FingersΔE00 2.802 · #297e6b
- Green SleevesΔE00 2.874 · #39766c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.