HueComb

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#5e7e7d

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

#5e7e7d

RGB

94, 126, 125

OKLCh

56.8% 0.036 193.8°

CIELAB (D50)

50.3, -12.0, -3.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 38% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.6; on black, Lc -31.1. 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 13.3 and 14.5 and 23.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.42:1 — large text only

Black text

4.76:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.76:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5d7d7c 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

#5e7e7d

protanopia

#7b7b7d · ΔE00 13.3

deuteranopia

#76767e · ΔE00 14.5

tritanopia

#7070bb · ΔE00 23.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTrumpet Teal at ΔE00 1.485: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Trumpet TealΔE00 1.485 · #5a7d7a
  • Teal StencilΔE00 1.665 · #627f7b
  • Eye GreyΔE00 1.817 · #607b7b
  • Green HourΔE00 2.213 · #587d79
  • Underwater WorldΔE00 2.586 · #657f7a
  • Uniform Green GreyΔE00 2.592 · #5f7b7e
  • Labradorite GreenΔE00 2.801 · #547d80
  • Nickel Ore GreenΔE00 2.816 · #537e7e
  • North AtlanticΔE00 2.872 · #5e7b7f
  • Refreshing GreenΔE00 3.275 · #617a74
  • Becker BlueΔE00 3.286 · #607879
  • Aspen ValleyΔE00 3.364 · #687f7a

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