Deepsea Kraken
#082599
A blue that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#082599
RGB
8, 37, 153
OKLCh
34.8% 0.188 264.9°
CIELAB (D50)
21.3, 30.5, -66.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 96.4; 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
12.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.73:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#082599
protanopia
#232399 · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#1f1f99 · ΔE00 2.7
tritanopia
#1a1aa3 · ΔE00 3.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpace Dust at ΔE00 0.772: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Space DustΔE00 0.772 · #002299
- Imperial BlueΔE00 0.782 · #002395
- Neutrino BlueΔE00 1.412 · #01248f
- Blue TorusΔE00 1.626 · #042993
- Celestial IndigoΔE00 1.856 · #091f92
- Blue LustΔE00 2.202 · #012389
- City Hunter BlueΔE00 2.208 · #0022aa
- Lost in HeavenΔE00 2.223 · #002489
- Naval AdventuresΔE00 2.334 · #072688
- There Is LightΔE00 2.381 · #002288
- Resolution BlueΔE00 2.481 · #002387
- Bright MidnightΔE00 3.131 · #011993
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.