Lost in Heaven
#002489
A blue that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#002489
RGB
0, 36, 137
OKLCh
32.6% 0.170 263.3°
CIELAB (D50)
19.1, 25.2, -59.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 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 98.1; 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
13.01:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.61:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.01:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#002489
protanopia
#222289 · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#1d1d89 · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#181896 · ΔE00 4.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Lust at ΔE00 0.344: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blue LustΔE00 0.344 · #012389
- Resolution BlueΔE00 0.375 · #002387
- Naval AdventuresΔE00 0.594 · #072688
- There Is LightΔE00 0.612 · #002288
- Neutrino BlueΔE00 0.826 · #01248f
- Imperial BlueΔE00 1.673 · #002395
- Blue TorusΔE00 1.842 · #042993
- Deepsea KrakenΔE00 2.223 · #082599
- Space DustΔE00 2.275 · #002299
- Celestial IndigoΔE00 2.282 · #091f92
- Long-Haul FlightΔE00 2.461 · #002277
- Impression of ObscurityΔE00 3.023 · #1a2578
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.