Pacific Depths
#004488
A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#004488
RGB
0, 68, 136
OKLCh
39.2% 0.129 254.9°
CIELAB (D50)
28.5, 3.6, -44.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- 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 91.6; on black, Lc -10.8. 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 10.5 and 10.4 and 11.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.62:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.18:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.62:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#004488
protanopia
#404088 · ΔE00 10.5
deuteranopia
#393988 · ΔE00 10.4
tritanopia
#3030ad · ΔE00 11.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPoster Blue at ΔE00 1.074: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Poster BlueΔE00 1.074 · #134682
- Congress BlueΔE00 1.096 · #02478e
- Bracing BlueΔE00 1.109 · #014182
- Mondrian BlueΔE00 1.203 · #0f478c
- BridgeportΔE00 1.222 · #004683
- Lost RiverΔE00 1.305 · #08457e
- Twilight BlueΔE00 1.584 · #0a437a
- LiberalistΔE00 1.609 · #0c4792
- Lady of the NightΔE00 1.656 · #05498b
- Inoffensive BlueΔE00 1.98 · #114477
- Fright NightΔE00 2.088 · #004499
- Honourable BlueΔE00 2.21 · #164576
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.