Winter Storm
#4b7079
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
#4b7079
RGB
75, 112, 121
OKLCh
52.1% 0.044 214.6°
CIELAB (D50)
44.7, -11.8, -9.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.8; on black, Lc -24.9. 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 15.2 and 16.4 and 18.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.89:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4b7079
protanopia
#6d6d79 · ΔE00 15.2
deuteranopia
#67677a · ΔE00 16.4
tritanopia
#6060b6 · ΔE00 18.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTornado Season at ΔE00 0.606: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tornado SeasonΔE00 0.606 · #4d7179
- Holy WaterΔE00 1.177 · #466e77
- HydroΔE00 1.839 · #49747f
- FlipΔE00 2.378 · #45747e
- Vining IvyΔE00 2.407 · #4b7378
- Sophisticated TealΔE00 2.606 · #537175
- BismarckΔE00 2.755 · #486c7a
- Wild RiverΔE00 2.795 · #447382
- Planet GreenΔE00 2.845 · #496a76
- Blue SageΔE00 2.932 · #57747a
- Rogue WatersΔE00 3.013 · #4e7376
- Juniper BerriesΔE00 3.098 · #547174
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.