Pacific Navy
#25488a
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#25488a
RGB
37, 72, 138
OKLCh
41.3% 0.117 261.7°
CIELAB (D50)
30.9, 5.9, -41.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit 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 89.9; on black, Lc -12.3. 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 7.8 and 7.6 and 8.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.85:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.37:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.85:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#25488a
protanopia
#45458a · ΔE00 7.8
deuteranopia
#40408a · ΔE00 7.6
tritanopia
#3a3aa8 · ΔE00 8.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIndigo Hamlet at ΔE00 0.888: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Indigo HamletΔE00 0.888 · #1f4788
- Cascade TwilightΔE00 0.993 · #234893
- Nuit BlancheΔE00 1.012 · #1e488f
- Florida WatersΔE00 1.046 · #2a4983
- Coastal SurfΔE00 1.543 · #2d4982
- Maritime OutpostΔE00 1.584 · #1e4581
- UnityΔE00 1.748 · #264d8e
- NauticalΔE00 2.067 · #2e4a7d
- Theatre BlueΔE00 2.116 · #21467a
- Blue HighlightΔE00 2.206 · #324a8b
- Space ExplorerΔE00 2.249 · #114499
- Blue OblivionΔE00 2.259 · #26428b
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.