Liquid Denim
#2d3796
A blue that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#2d3796
RGB
45, 55, 150
OKLCh
39.1% 0.154 272.4°
CIELAB (D50)
27.2, 22.1, -54.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.7; on black, Lc -9.7. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
10.01:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.10:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.01:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2d3796
protanopia
#363696 · ΔE00 1.8
deuteranopia
#343496 · ΔE00 1.8
tritanopia
#32329e · ΔE00 2.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNorth Star Blue at ΔE00 1.633: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- North Star BlueΔE00 1.633 · #223399
- Royal NightΔE00 1.882 · #2b3191
- Perfect DarkΔE00 1.914 · #313390
- Ultramarine HighlightΔE00 1.915 · #2e328f
- Depths of NightΔE00 1.973 · #2c319b
- BluebellΔE00 1.978 · #333399
- Navy SealΔE00 2.11 · #253a91
- Intergalactic HighwayΔE00 2.436 · #273287
- Ritterlich BlueΔE00 2.556 · #293286
- Migol BlueΔE00 2.868 · #283482
- Yuè Guāng Lán BlueΔE00 3.085 · #2138ab
- Deep Space RoyalΔE00 3.123 · #223382
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.