Starry Night
#286492
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#286492
RGB
40, 100, 146
OKLCh
48.6% 0.096 245.0°
CIELAB (D50)
40.2, -7.6, -31.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.1; on black, Lc -20.7. 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 15.0 and 14.3 and 12.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.31:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.33:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.31:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#286492
protanopia
#5f5f92 · ΔE00 15.0
deuteranopia
#575793 · ΔE00 14.3
tritanopia
#4d4dcd · ΔE00 12.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOuter Reef at ΔE00 1.579: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Outer ReefΔE00 1.579 · #2a6295
- Traditional BlueΔE00 2.099 · #1f648d
- Copenhagen BlueΔE00 2.137 · #21638b
- Teeny BikiniΔE00 2.231 · #326395
- BluesΔE00 2.331 · #296a9d
- Atlantic MystiqueΔE00 2.356 · #00629a
- Craving CobaltΔE00 2.376 · #016496
- Lapis Lazuli BlueΔE00 2.413 · #215f96
- Drake’s NeckΔE00 2.438 · #31668a
- Wavy NavyΔE00 2.482 · #006597
- Impulse BlueΔE00 2.53 · #006699
- PontoonΔE00 2.549 · #0c608e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.