Wavy Navy
#006597
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#006597
RGB
0, 101, 151
OKLCh
48.4% 0.112 240.5°
CIELAB (D50)
39.9, -10.6, -34.9
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 81.0; on black, Lc -20.9. 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 17.6 and 16.9 and 16.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.35:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.31:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.35:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#006597
protanopia
#5f5f97 · ΔE00 17.6
deuteranopia
#565698 · ΔE00 16.9
tritanopia
#4949da · ΔE00 16.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCraving Cobalt at ΔE00 0.36: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Craving CobaltΔE00 0.36 · #016496
- Impulse BlueΔE00 0.406 · #006699
- Bauhaus BlueΔE00 0.979 · #006392
- Europe BlueΔE00 1.123 · #006796
- Peacock BlueΔE00 1.327 · #016795
- Kingfisher BlueΔE00 1.337 · #006491
- FelixΔE00 1.813 · #00608f
- Atlantic MystiqueΔE00 1.866 · #00629a
- PontoonΔE00 1.877 · #0c608e
- Traditional BlueΔE00 1.977 · #1f648d
- HydraΔE00 2.288 · #006995
- Copenhagen BlueΔE00 2.289 · #21638b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.