Rainy Mood
#4499aa
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#4499aa
RGB
68, 153, 170
OKLCh
63.8% 0.085 212.8°
CIELAB (D50)
58.6, -22.8, -17.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.0; on black, Lc -41.7. 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 23.1 and 23.0 and 24.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.29:1 — large text only
Black text
6.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#288192 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4499aa
protanopia
#9292aa · ΔE00 23.1
deuteranopia
#8787ab · ΔE00 23.0
tritanopia
#7979ff · ΔE00 24.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlpine Lake at ΔE00 0.863: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Alpine LakeΔE00 0.863 · #4598ab
- Summer Turquoise BlueΔE00 1.279 · #4b9cab
- Acapulco CliffsΔE00 1.315 · #4e9aa8
- Aqua DanceΔE00 1.503 · #3896a7
- Sea SparkleΔE00 1.931 · #469ba7
- Teal GlacierΔE00 2.223 · #3e9eac
- Aquatic CoolΔE00 2.366 · #41a0b4
- Flood OutΔE00 2.474 · #579dab
- Starflower BlueΔE00 2.481 · #4e9ab0
- Caribbean CruiseΔE00 2.515 · #3f9da9
- Sports BlueΔE00 2.547 · #399bb4
- Tropical OasisΔE00 2.671 · #579aa5
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.