Endless Galaxy
#000044
A blue that is muted. It is very dark — white text sits on it comfortably, black text does not.
Hex
#000044
RGB
0, 0, 68
OKLCh
17.5% 0.121 264.1°
CIELAB (D50)
3.2, 19.8, -40.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 104.7; on black, Lc 0.0. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
19.38:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.08:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at19.38:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#000044
protanopia
#000044 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#000044 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#000044 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNight Blue at ΔE00 1.208: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Night BlueΔE00 1.208 · #040348
- StratosΔE00 1.907 · #000741
- Ultramarine ShadowΔE00 2.002 · #090045
- StormΔE00 2.208 · #000b44
- Silent TwilightΔE00 2.849 · #0f084b
- Midnight BlueΔE00 3.451 · #020035
- Kantor BlueΔE00 3.615 · #001146
- RavenclawΔE00 3.624 · #0a0555
- Alucard’s NightΔE00 3.636 · #000055
- Floppy DiskΔE00 3.661 · #110044
- Interstellar BlueΔE00 3.751 · #001155
- Blue LatexΔE00 3.815 · #001144
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.