Haunt Mist

#5f6d91

A blue 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

#5f6d91

RGB

95, 109, 145

OKLCh

53.8% 0.059 267.9°

CIELAB (D50)

45.9, 1.5, -21.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 23% 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 75.4; on black, Lc -26.3. 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 5.6 and 5.4 and 5.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.14:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.08:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.14:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#5f6d91

protanopia

#6c6c91 · ΔE00 5.6

deuteranopia

#696991 · ΔE00 5.4

tritanopia

#6666a9 · ΔE00 5.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEmerald-Crested Manakin at ΔE00 0.914: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Emerald-Crested ManakinΔE00 0.914 · #5c6b8f
  • JusticeΔE00 1.301 · #606b8e
  • Ocean NightΔE00 1.556 · #637195
  • AllegianceΔE00 1.659 · #5a6a8c
  • Blueberry PatchΔE00 1.752 · #627099
  • Waikawa GreyΔE00 1.895 · #5b6e91
  • Beguiling BlueΔE00 2.077 · #5e6f8e
  • Dangerously ElegantΔE00 2.238 · #616b89
  • Grape HazeΔE00 2.372 · #606a88
  • Royal IntrigueΔE00 2.838 · #687094
  • MoonshadeΔE00 2.92 · #5a6e9c
  • Kashmir BlueΔE00 3.241 · #576d8e

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