Nautical Creatures
#295c7a
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#295c7a
RGB
41, 92, 122
OKLCh
45.4% 0.073 237.3°
CIELAB (D50)
36.6, -10.0, -22.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.9; on black, Lc -17.1. 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 16.4 and 15.8 and 12.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.23:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.91:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.23:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#295c7a
protanopia
#58587a · ΔE00 16.4
deuteranopia
#51517b · ΔE00 15.8
tritanopia
#4848b3 · ΔE00 12.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSuez Canal at ΔE00 1.327: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Suez CanalΔE00 1.327 · #235e80
- Mountain LakeΔE00 1.346 · #2d5975
- Sea HunterΔE00 1.527 · #245878
- SacrificeΔE00 1.817 · #2a5774
- Queen of the NightΔE00 1.947 · #295776
- Berry BlueΔE00 1.954 · #32607a
- Chathams BlueΔE00 2.141 · #2c5971
- Shasta LakeΔE00 2.2 · #355c74
- Royal BreezeΔE00 2.385 · #275779
- Royal BloodΔE00 2.397 · #105e80
- Oceanic MotionΔE00 2.445 · #1d5c83
- Heavy BlueΔE00 2.46 · #2c5674
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.