Stormy Oceans
#70818e
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#70818e
RGB
112, 129, 142
OKLCh
59.4% 0.028 241.0°
CIELAB (D50)
52.9, -4.2, -9.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 20% 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 67.5; on black, Lc -34.1. 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 8.5 and 9.1 and 13.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.02:1 — large text only
Black text
5.22:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.22:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#687986 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
#70818e
protanopia
#7f7f8e · ΔE00 8.5
deuteranopia
#7c7c8e · ΔE00 9.1
tritanopia
#7979b2 · ΔE00 13.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMica Creek at ΔE00 0.493: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mica CreekΔE00 0.493 · #70828f
- Oyster BayΔE00 0.862 · #71818c
- Slate ExpectationsΔE00 0.878 · #6e7f8d
- Battle BlueΔE00 1.357 · #74828f
- Adirondack BlueΔE00 2.013 · #74858f
- Forever DenimΔE00 2.094 · #778590
- LynchΔE00 2.273 · #697d89
- Atlantic ShorelineΔE00 2.362 · #708189
- Bay WharfΔE00 2.42 · #747f89
- Risk-RewardΔE00 2.563 · #6a7e88
- Polished SteelΔE00 2.728 · #6f828a
- Astronomicon GreyΔE00 2.769 · #6b7c85
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.