Ravenclaw

#0a0555

A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.

Hex

#0a0555

RGB

10, 5, 85

OKLCh

21.7% 0.132 270.4°

CIELAB (D50)

6.6, 27.3, -46.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 93% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 103.8; 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

18.01:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.17:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at18.01:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#0a0555

protanopia

#060655 · ΔE00 0.6

deuteranopia

#060655 · ΔE00 0.6

tritanopia

#070753 · ΔE00 0.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlucard’s Night at ΔE00 1.322: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Alucard’s NightΔE00 1.322 · #000055
  • Abyssal BlueΔE00 1.527 · #00035b
  • Prussian NightsΔE00 1.706 · #0b085f
  • Scoop of Dark MatterΔE00 1.76 · #110055
  • Silent TwilightΔE00 2.315 · #0f084b
  • Space ColonisationΔE00 2.387 · #150f5b
  • Night BlueΔE00 2.57 · #040348
  • D. Darx BlueΔE00 2.61 · #030764
  • Underground StreamΔE00 2.691 · #120a65
  • Ultramarine ShadowΔE00 2.836 · #090045
  • Darth TorusΔE00 2.894 · #1d045d
  • ShadowdancerΔE00 3.045 · #111155

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.