Galactic Cruise
#111188
A blue that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#111188
RGB
17, 17, 136
OKLCh
30.3% 0.183 268.4°
CIELAB (D50)
15.6, 36.7, -65.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 91% 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 99.8; 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
14.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.46:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#111188
protanopia
#111188 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#111188 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#111188 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYearning at ΔE00 0.622: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- YearningΔE00 0.622 · #061088
- Phthalo BlueΔE00 0.922 · #000f89
- Snowstorm Space ShuttleΔE00 0.977 · #001188
- Blue TrustΔE00 1.438 · #120a8f
- Nightly ExpeditionΔE00 1.7 · #221188
- Cadmium BlueΔE00 1.741 · #0a1195
- RoyalΔE00 2.046 · #0c1793
- Space ExplorationΔE00 2.317 · #001199
- Bright MidnightΔE00 2.62 · #011993
- Blue RangerΔE00 2.638 · #00177d
- Major TomΔE00 2.666 · #001177
- Yves Klein BlueΔE00 2.675 · #00008b
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.