Matt Blue
#2c6fbb
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#2c6fbb
RGB
44, 111, 187
OKLCh
53.8% 0.137 254.0°
CIELAB (D50)
45.6, -0.6, -47.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.0; on black, Lc -26.8. 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 13.3 and 12.9 and 13.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.12:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.10:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.12:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2c6fbb
protanopia
#6a6abb · ΔE00 13.3
deuteranopia
#6161bc · ΔE00 12.9
tritanopia
#5656f3 · ΔE00 13.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNocturne Shade at ΔE00 1.539: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Nocturne ShadeΔE00 1.539 · #356fad
- CampanulaΔE00 1.545 · #3473b7
- Indigo CarmineΔE00 1.865 · #006ec7
- Mid BlueΔE00 1.957 · #276ab3
- Palace BlueΔE00 2.059 · #3973c0
- Beautiful BlueΔE00 2.077 · #186db6
- Dover StraitsΔE00 2.189 · #326ab1
- In the NickΔE00 2.331 · #2b6daa
- Celtic BlueΔE00 2.346 · #246bce
- AthensΔE00 2.47 · #3f74b1
- Mega BlueΔE00 2.542 · #366fa6
- Mimesia BlueΔE00 2.553 · #2269ca
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.