Paradiso
#488084
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
#488084
RGB
72, 128, 132
OKLCh
56.3% 0.059 201.6°
CIELAB (D50)
49.9, -18.4, -8.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.9; on black, Lc -30.7. 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 19.0 and 20.6 and 25.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.47:1 — large text only
Black text
4.70:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.70:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#488084 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
#488084
protanopia
#7b7b84 · ΔE00 19.0
deuteranopia
#737385 · ΔE00 20.6
tritanopia
#6969d8 · ΔE00 25.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEnamel Antique Green at ΔE00 1.152: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Enamel Antique GreenΔE00 1.152 · #427f85
- SubmergedΔE00 1.427 · #4a7d82
- Pacific Sea TealΔE00 1.765 · #3e8083
- Tapestry TealΔE00 1.954 · #4d7f86
- For the Love of HueΔE00 2.231 · #457e87
- Brittany BlueΔE00 2.372 · #4c7e86
- Sea CallerΔE00 2.376 · #45868b
- Shady BlueΔE00 2.447 · #42808a
- Lucky ShamrockΔE00 2.602 · #487a7b
- Blue VenusΔE00 2.611 · #397c80
- Sea UrchinΔE00 2.714 · #367d83
- Nickel Ore GreenΔE00 2.773 · #537e7e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.