Long-Haul Flight
#002277
A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#002277
RGB
0, 34, 119
OKLCh
30.2% 0.149 262.8°
CIELAB (D50)
16.8, 20.1, -52.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits 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 99.8; 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.05:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.50:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.05:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#002277
protanopia
#202077 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#1c1c77 · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#161684 · ΔE00 5.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMidnight Crest at ΔE00 1.362: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Midnight CrestΔE00 1.362 · #112473
- Resolution BlueΔE00 2.202 · #002387
- Impression of ObscurityΔE00 2.239 · #1a2578
- Abyssal DepthsΔE00 2.252 · #10246a
- There Is LightΔE00 2.39 · #002288
- Lost in HeavenΔE00 2.461 · #002489
- Naval AdventuresΔE00 2.485 · #072688
- Blue LustΔE00 2.488 · #012389
- Midnight MelancholiaΔE00 2.51 · #002266
- Catalina BlueΔE00 2.526 · #062a78
- Deep Sea NightmareΔE00 2.623 · #002366
- Dark SapphireΔE00 2.643 · #082567
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.