HueComb

Jewel Weed

#46a795

A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#46a795

RGB

70, 167, 149

OKLCh

66.6% 0.095 179.1°

CIELAB (D50)

62.4, -33.1, 0.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits 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 55.2; on black, Lc -46.6. 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 21.7 and 23.8 and 36.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.91:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.22:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.22:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#1a8574 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#46a795

protanopia

#a0a095 · ΔE00 21.7

deuteranopia

#939397 · ΔE00 23.8

tritanopia

#8383ff · ΔE00 36.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarine Green at ΔE00 1.791: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.