Tropical Rain
#447777
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
#447777
RGB
68, 119, 119
OKLCh
53.4% 0.055 195.6°
CIELAB (D50)
46.5, -17.9, -5.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 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 74.8; on black, Lc -26.9. 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 17.8 and 19.5 and 26.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.06:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.15:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.06:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#447777
protanopia
#737377 · ΔE00 17.8
deuteranopia
#6b6b78 · ΔE00 19.5
tritanopia
#6262c6 · ΔE00 26.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMing at ΔE00 1.199: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- MingΔE00 1.199 · #407577
- Surf GreenΔE00 1.217 · #427573
- Faded JadeΔE00 1.332 · #427977
- Lucky ShamrockΔE00 1.342 · #487a7b
- Cool WatersΔE00 1.477 · #487678
- Grand CanalΔE00 2.183 · #3c797d
- Ocean SlumberΔE00 2.214 · #41767b
- Diver’s EdenΔE00 2.61 · #3a797e
- Sea PeaΔE00 2.734 · #457973
- Breaker BayΔE00 2.889 · #517b78
- Blue VenusΔE00 3.042 · #397c80
- PeabodyΔE00 3.114 · #3f7074
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.