Stay the Night
#314662
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#314662
RGB
49, 70, 98
OKLCh
39.0% 0.055 255.9°
CIELAB (D50)
28.9, -1.9, -19.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.2; on black, Lc -10.2. 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 9.0 and 9.0 and 7.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.62:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.18:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.62:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#314662
protanopia
#444462 · ΔE00 9.0
deuteranopia
#414162 · ΔE00 9.0
tritanopia
#3d3d80 · ΔE00 7.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpelunking at ΔE00 1.538: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SpelunkingΔE00 1.538 · #35465e
- Black TurmericΔE00 1.798 · #2c4364
- Lake ViewΔE00 1.85 · #2e4967
- Deep RoyalΔE00 1.999 · #364c68
- Silent SeaΔE00 2.237 · #3a4a63
- PiΔE00 2.291 · #314159
- Evening GloryΔE00 2.319 · #3a4a62
- Garnet Stone BlueΔE00 2.34 · #384866
- Moonlit OceanΔE00 2.351 · #30445a
- Naval BlueΔE00 2.467 · #384b6b
- Pickled BluewoodΔE00 2.649 · #314459
- Passionate BlueberryΔE00 2.754 · #334159
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.