Neptune
#007dac
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#007dac
RGB
0, 125, 172
OKLCh
55.5% 0.116 233.8°
CIELAB (D50)
48.5, -16.5, -33.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 71.6; on black, Lc -30.1. 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 20.8 and 20.1 and 19.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.64:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.53:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.64:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#007dac
protanopia
#7676ac · ΔE00 20.8
deuteranopia
#6a6aad · ΔE00 20.1
tritanopia
#5b5bff · ΔE00 19.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJacuzzi at ΔE00 0.477: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- JacuzziΔE00 0.477 · #007cac
- BenitoiteΔE00 0.742 · #007baa
- Turkish BlueΔE00 0.743 · #007fae
- CapstanΔE00 0.879 · #007eb0
- Celadon BlueΔE00 1.093 · #007ba7
- Quiet CoveΔE00 1.344 · #017aa6
- Blue VacationΔE00 1.381 · #1e7eae
- Blue Bird DayΔE00 1.464 · #237fac
- Sixties BlueΔE00 1.525 · #0079a9
- CG BlueΔE00 1.541 · #007aa5
- Oh so VoΔE00 1.632 · #0180ab
- Prominent BlueΔE00 1.822 · #2b7da6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.