Good Karma
#333c76
A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#333c76
RGB
51, 60, 118
OKLCh
38.0% 0.099 274.1°
CIELAB (D50)
26.9, 10.5, -35.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 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 93.6; on black, Lc -8.9. 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.
- 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
10.25:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.05:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.25:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#333c76
protanopia
#3b3b76 · ΔE00 2.4
deuteranopia
#3a3a76 · ΔE00 2.3
tritanopia
#383880 · ΔE00 2.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTorea Bay at ΔE00 0.59: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Torea BayΔE00 0.59 · #353d75
- Evening MagicΔE00 1.17 · #363e7d
- Forbidden BlackberryΔE00 1.253 · #323f75
- Spirit BlueΔE00 1.741 · #323b6c
- Newport IndigoΔE00 1.826 · #313d6c
- British MauveΔE00 2.041 · #35427b
- Lviv BlueΔE00 2.091 · #384172
- Jacksons PurpleΔE00 2.237 · #3d3f7d
- Little Blue HeronΔE00 2.518 · #3c4378
- Jewel CaveΔE00 2.711 · #3c4173
- Ballpoint IndigoΔE00 2.737 · #323477
- Space AngelΔE00 2.891 · #3b4271
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.