Dragonfly
#314a76
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#314a76
RGB
49, 74, 118
OKLCh
41.1% 0.080 261.1°
CIELAB (D50)
31.1, 1.2, -28.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.1; on black, Lc -12.1. 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 7.7 and 7.3 and 6.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.85:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.37:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.85:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#314a76
protanopia
#484876 · ΔE00 7.7
deuteranopia
#444476 · ΔE00 7.3
tritanopia
#3f3f94 · ΔE00 6.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSailboat at ΔE00 0.77: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- SailboatΔE00 0.77 · #314a72
- NauticalΔE00 1.226 · #2e4a7d
- Midnight InterludeΔE00 1.274 · #32496f
- Enchanted NavyΔE00 1.62 · #2d4a71
- High AltarΔE00 1.772 · #334f7b
- Noble KnightΔE00 1.782 · #394d78
- Coastal SurfΔE00 1.899 · #2d4982
- Hydrogen BlueΔE00 1.957 · #33476d
- Blue FunkΔE00 2.002 · #2d4470
- AirforceΔE00 2.067 · #364d70
- Florida WatersΔE00 2.227 · #2a4983
- Daring IndigoΔE00 2.274 · #374874
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.