Hyper Blue
#015f97
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#015f97
RGB
1, 95, 151
OKLCh
46.9% 0.117 244.8°
CIELAB (D50)
38.0, -7.2, -37.9
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 82.9; on black, Lc -19.0. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 16.0 and 15.4 and 15.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.81:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.09:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.81:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#015f97
protanopia
#5a5a97 · ΔE00 16.0
deuteranopia
#505098 · ΔE00 15.4
tritanopia
#4444d3 · ΔE00 15.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJetski Race at ΔE00 0.74: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Jetski RaceΔE00 0.74 · #005d96
- Rave RegattaΔE00 0.994 · #00619d
- Atlantic MystiqueΔE00 1.065 · #00629a
- Lapis JewelΔE00 1.473 · #165d95
- Brigadier BlueΔE00 1.632 · #0063a0
- Buccaneer BlueΔE00 1.771 · #035b8d
- Prime BlueΔE00 1.93 · #0064a1
- Lapis Lazuli BlueΔE00 2.053 · #215f96
- PontoonΔE00 2.168 · #0c608e
- Baleine BlueΔE00 2.201 · #165a90
- FelixΔE00 2.25 · #00608f
- Craving CobaltΔE00 2.378 · #016496
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.