Moonlit Forest
#3e6d6a
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
#3e6d6a
RGB
62, 109, 106
OKLCh
50.0% 0.052 190.4°
CIELAB (D50)
42.6, -17.4, -3.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.1; on black, Lc -22.7. 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 16.7 and 18.5 and 27.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.83:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.60:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.83:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3e6d6a
protanopia
#69696a · ΔE00 16.7
deuteranopia
#62626b · ΔE00 18.5
tritanopia
#5a5ab5 · ΔE00 27.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBetta Fish at ΔE00 1.351: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Betta FishΔE00 1.351 · #3a6b66
- Deep Pool TealΔE00 1.823 · #366d68
- FarragoΔE00 1.836 · #456f6e
- Shady PalmΔE00 2 · #456b67
- MoatΔE00 2.218 · #3e6a6b
- North SeaΔE00 2.228 · #316c69
- Jungle NoisesΔE00 2.291 · #36716f
- SinkholeΔE00 2.386 · #49716d
- Pond NewtΔE00 2.721 · #486b67
- Surf GreenΔE00 2.94 · #427573
- RiverbendΔE00 2.959 · #486b65
- Statue of LibertyΔE00 3.054 · #376d64
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.