Naval Adventures
#072688
A blue that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#072688
RGB
7, 38, 136
OKLCh
33.0% 0.165 264.4°
CIELAB (D50)
19.8, 24.0, -58.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 97.9; 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
12.79:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.64:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.79:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#072688
protanopia
#242488 · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#202088 · ΔE00 3.5
tritanopia
#1b1b94 · ΔE00 4.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLost in Heaven at ΔE00 0.594: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lost in HeavenΔE00 0.594 · #002489
- Resolution BlueΔE00 0.837 · #002387
- Blue LustΔE00 0.863 · #012389
- Neutrino BlueΔE00 1.114 · #01248f
- There Is LightΔE00 1.121 · #002288
- Blue TorusΔE00 1.622 · #042993
- Imperial BlueΔE00 1.956 · #002395
- Deepsea KrakenΔE00 2.334 · #082599
- Long-Haul FlightΔE00 2.485 · #002277
- Space DustΔE00 2.562 · #002299
- Celestial IndigoΔE00 2.664 · #091f92
- Impression of ObscurityΔE00 2.804 · #1a2578
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.