Bluedgeons
#324c64
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#324c64
RGB
50, 76, 100
OKLCh
40.6% 0.051 247.2°
CIELAB (D50)
31.0, -4.6, -17.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.4; on black, Lc -11.9. 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 11.4 and 11.6 and 8.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.92:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.35:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.92:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#324c64
protanopia
#4a4a64 · ΔE00 11.4
deuteranopia
#464664 · ΔE00 11.6
tritanopia
#414189 · ΔE00 8.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRain Boots at ΔE00 0.742: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rain BootsΔE00 0.742 · #354d65
- Blueberry PieΔE00 0.756 · #314d67
- Majolica BlueΔE00 1.079 · #2d4b65
- Blue FedoraΔE00 1.298 · #324c61
- Outer SpaceΔE00 1.62 · #314e64
- Celestial BlueΔE00 1.708 · #2c4d69
- Singing the BluesΔE00 1.815 · #2b4d68
- Velvet RopeΔE00 2.045 · #36526a
- InkedΔE00 2.078 · #3b5066
- Blue HueΔE00 2.144 · #394d60
- SovereigntyΔE00 2.208 · #304e63
- Police BlueΔE00 2.244 · #374f6b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.