Infinite Night
#071037
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very dark — white text sits on it comfortably, black text does not.
Hex
#071037
RGB
7, 16, 55
OKLCh
19.6% 0.077 268.0°
CIELAB (D50)
5.9, 8.5, -26.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 104.8; on black, Lc 0.0. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
18.45:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.14:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at18.45:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#071037
protanopia
#0f0f37 · ΔE00 2.4
deuteranopia
#0e0e37 · ΔE00 2.3
tritanopia
#0c0c3d · ΔE00 3.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Cove at ΔE00 2.152: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Deep CoveΔE00 2.152 · #051040
- Grim ReaperΔE00 2.25 · #0f1039
- OblivionΔE00 2.341 · #000435
- Illicit DarknessΔE00 2.368 · #00022e
- NavyΔE00 2.567 · #01153e
- Cosmic VoidΔE00 2.597 · #090533
- Cetacean BlueΔE00 2.628 · #001440
- Mighty MidnightΔE00 2.651 · #000133
- MidnightΔE00 2.68 · #03012d
- Abyssopelagic WaterΔE00 2.827 · #000033
- Blue LatexΔE00 3.051 · #001144
- Midnight BlueΔE00 3.059 · #020035
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.