Le Grand Bleu
#244e94
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#244e94
RGB
36, 78, 148
OKLCh
43.4% 0.124 260.0°
CIELAB (D50)
33.2, 5.3, -43.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.7; on black, Lc -14.5. 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 8.9 and 8.6 and 9.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.59:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#244e94
protanopia
#4b4b94 · ΔE00 8.9
deuteranopia
#454594 · ΔE00 8.6
tritanopia
#3d3db7 · ΔE00 9.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUnity at ΔE00 0.755: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- UnityΔE00 0.755 · #264d8e
- Sea of TearsΔE00 1.255 · #1d4da0
- Dancing SeaΔE00 1.274 · #1c4d8f
- InsigniaΔE00 1.283 · #285294
- Sweat BeeΔE00 1.302 · #1d4e8f
- Blue NudeΔE00 1.332 · #29518c
- Nightly ActivitiesΔE00 1.383 · #2e5090
- Olympian BlueΔE00 1.511 · #1c4c8c
- Regal DestinyΔE00 1.62 · #2e508a
- Ruri BlueΔE00 1.627 · #1e50a2
- Night ModeΔE00 1.757 · #234e86
- Turkish SeaΔE00 1.869 · #194f90
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.