Rogue Waters
#4e7376
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
#4e7376
RGB
78, 115, 118
OKLCh
52.9% 0.042 202.4°
CIELAB (D50)
45.7, -13.0, -6.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.7; on black, Lc -26.0. 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 15.0 and 16.3 and 22.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.20:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.04:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.20:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4e7376
protanopia
#707076 · ΔE00 15.0
deuteranopia
#6a6a77 · ΔE00 16.3
tritanopia
#6363b6 · ΔE00 22.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVining Ivy at ΔE00 1.025: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Vining IvyΔE00 1.025 · #4b7378
- Sophisticated TealΔE00 2.117 · #537175
- Juniper BerriesΔE00 2.217 · #547174
- Cool WatersΔE00 2.309 · #487678
- Tornado SeasonΔE00 2.54 · #4d7179
- Thunderhawk BlueΔE00 2.735 · #417074
- Winter StormΔE00 3.013 · #4b7079
- PeabodyΔE00 3.104 · #3f7074
- FarragoΔE00 3.109 · #456f6e
- Blue SageΔE00 3.151 · #57747a
- Sagebrush GreenΔE00 3.185 · #567572
- FlipΔE00 3.281 · #45747e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.