Intergalactic Cowboy
#222266
A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#222266
RGB
34, 34, 102
OKLCh
30.0% 0.116 276.8°
CIELAB (D50)
17.0, 18.6, -40.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 100.4; 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
14.11:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.49:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.11:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#222266
protanopia
#222266 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#222266 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#222266 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAfter Work Blue at ΔE00 1.207: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- After Work BlueΔE00 1.207 · #24246d
- Deep BreathΔE00 2.556 · #27275f
- SnorlaxΔE00 2.919 · #222277
- Indie GoΔE00 2.979 · #2e2364
- Pure MidnightΔE00 3.058 · #112266
- SpacescapeΔE00 3.479 · #222255
- 20000 Leagues Under the SeaΔE00 3.499 · #191970
- Blue RoyaleΔE00 3.543 · #29217a
- Blue RoseΔE00 3.596 · #292d74
- Abyssal DepthsΔE00 3.607 · #10246a
- Impression of ObscurityΔE00 3.671 · #1a2578
- St. Patrick’s BlueΔE00 3.741 · #23297a
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.