Evening Magic
#363e7d
A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#363e7d
RGB
54, 62, 125
OKLCh
39.1% 0.106 275.0°
CIELAB (D50)
28.2, 12.1, -37.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.5; on black, Lc -9.9. 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
9.80:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.14:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.80:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#363e7d
protanopia
#3d3d7d · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#3c3c7d · ΔE00 2.0
tritanopia
#3a3a86 · ΔE00 2.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGood Karma at ΔE00 1.17: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Good KarmaΔE00 1.17 · #333c76
- Torea BayΔE00 1.334 · #353d75
- British MauveΔE00 1.594 · #35427b
- Forbidden BlackberryΔE00 1.598 · #323f75
- Jacksons PurpleΔE00 1.766 · #3d3f7d
- Little Blue HeronΔE00 2.308 · #3c4378
- Queen of the Night ShiftΔE00 2.336 · #3d4585
- Clematis BlueΔE00 2.365 · #3c3d8a
- Lviv BlueΔE00 2.41 · #384172
- Newport IndigoΔE00 2.755 · #313d6c
- Spirit BlueΔE00 2.813 · #323b6c
- Official VioletΔE00 2.819 · #2e4182
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.