Fist of the North Star
#225599
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#225599
RGB
34, 85, 153
OKLCh
45.3% 0.124 256.8°
CIELAB (D50)
35.6, 2.3, -42.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.4; on black, Lc -16.6. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.6 and 10.3 and 10.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.43:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.83:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.43:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#225599
protanopia
#515199 · ΔE00 10.6
deuteranopia
#4a4a99 · ΔE00 10.3
tritanopia
#4242c3 · ΔE00 10.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Sail at ΔE00 0.609: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blue SailΔE00 0.609 · #24549a
- Summer WatersΔE00 0.695 · #215399
- Blue ChipΔE00 0.843 · #1d5699
- Cyan Cobalt BlueΔE00 1.105 · #28589c
- Sonic BlueΔE00 1.274 · #17569b
- Florentine LapisΔE00 1.33 · #1c5798
- Vegeta BlueΔE00 1.445 · #26538d
- B’dazzled BlueΔE00 1.497 · #2e5894
- InsigniaΔE00 1.584 · #285294
- Victoria BlueΔE00 1.656 · #0853a7
- Blue RegentΔE00 1.774 · #285991
- Nautical BlueΔE00 1.856 · #1a5091
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.