Forlorn Cruise
#34466c
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
#34466c
RGB
52, 70, 108
OKLCh
39.7% 0.069 264.2°
CIELAB (D50)
29.6, 1.7, -24.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 25% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.6; on black, Lc -10.8. 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 6.4 and 6.1 and 5.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.38:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.24:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.38:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#34466c
protanopia
#44446c · ΔE00 6.4
deuteranopia
#41416c · ΔE00 6.1
tritanopia
#3e3e84 · ΔE00 5.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHydrogen Blue at ΔE00 0.682: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hydrogen BlueΔE00 0.682 · #33476d
- Space MissionsΔE00 1.466 · #324471
- Daring IndigoΔE00 1.515 · #374874
- Bona FideΔE00 1.565 · #304471
- Midnight InterludeΔE00 1.747 · #32496f
- Blue FunkΔE00 1.885 · #2d4470
- Jazz Age BluesΔE00 1.901 · #3b4a6c
- Starlit NightΔE00 2.137 · #3b476b
- Garnet Stone BlueΔE00 2.225 · #384866
- Mountain BlueberryΔE00 2.265 · #3c4b6c
- Naval BlueΔE00 2.3 · #384b6b
- SailboatΔE00 2.339 · #314a72
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.