Cavolo Nero
#72939e
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#72939e
RGB
114, 147, 158
OKLCh
64.2% 0.040 220.2°
CIELAB (D50)
58.7, -9.9, -9.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% 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 60.2; on black, Lc -41.5. 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 13.9 and 14.9 and 16.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.29:1 — large text only
Black text
6.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5b7c86 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
#72939e
protanopia
#90909e · ΔE00 13.9
deuteranopia
#8a8a9f · ΔE00 14.9
tritanopia
#8484dc · ΔE00 16.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSilk Khimar at ΔE00 0.572: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Silk KhimarΔE00 0.572 · #70939e
- Silver Fir BlueΔE00 1.288 · #7196a2
- Wave JumperΔE00 1.581 · #6c919f
- Cameo BlueΔE00 1.896 · #7097a2
- Pulitzer BlueΔE00 2.055 · #6e8d98
- Smoky BlueΔE00 2.139 · #7196a6
- Secret CoveΔE00 2.226 · #68909d
- Sheltered BayΔE00 2.329 · #758f9a
- Ebb TideΔE00 2.336 · #7893a0
- BaritoneΔE00 2.361 · #708e95
- Architecture BlueΔE00 2.401 · #7195a6
- Spirit MountainΔE00 2.911 · #6a8b98
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.