Flying Fish Blue
#024aca
A blue that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#024aca
RGB
2, 74, 202
OKLCh
46.3% 0.208 261.8°
CIELAB (D50)
35.0, 23.5, -72.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 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 84.7; on black, Lc -17.3. 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 6.8 and 7.1 and 8.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.41:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.83:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.41:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#024aca
protanopia
#4646ca · ΔE00 6.8
deuteranopia
#3e3eca · ΔE00 7.1
tritanopia
#3535e6 · ΔE00 8.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNew Car at ΔE00 1.674: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- New CarΔE00 1.674 · #214fc6
- Absolute ZeroΔE00 1.919 · #0048ba
- Apnea DiveΔE00 2.129 · #284fbd
- Once in a Blue MoonΔE00 2.482 · #0044bb
- Mourning BlueΔE00 2.5 · #1651bd
- Kikorangi BlueΔE00 2.505 · #2e4ebf
- Pacific BridgeΔE00 2.703 · #0052cc
- Cerulean BlueΔE00 2.704 · #2a52be
- Iridescent BlueΔE00 3.102 · #0153c8
- SapphireΔE00 3.182 · #0f52ba
- The Blues BrothersΔE00 3.223 · #214daa
- Blizzy BlueberryΔE00 3.316 · #1151b4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.