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#2e5090
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#2e5090
RGB
46, 80, 144
OKLCh
44.0% 0.113 261.8°
CIELAB (D50)
34.1, 4.6, -39.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.1; on black, Lc -15.0. 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 8.1 and 7.8 and 8.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.88:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.67:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.88:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2e5090
protanopia
#4d4d90 · ΔE00 8.1
deuteranopia
#484890 · ΔE00 7.8
tritanopia
#4242b1 · ΔE00 8.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRegal Destiny at ΔE00 0.712: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Regal DestinyΔE00 0.712 · #2e508a
- UnityΔE00 1.313 · #264d8e
- Blue NudeΔE00 1.354 · #29518c
- Blue QuartzΔE00 1.376 · #335287
- Le Grand BleuΔE00 1.383 · #244e94
- InsigniaΔE00 1.482 · #285294
- Chinese BlueΔE00 1.556 · #365194
- AssassinΔE00 1.609 · #2d4f83
- Flashy SapphireΔE00 1.714 · #2c538a
- Fun BlueΔE00 1.772 · #335083
- Galaxy BlueΔE00 1.964 · #2d5284
- Glimpse of VoidΔE00 2.005 · #335588
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.