Windsurfing
#3a7099
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#3a7099
RGB
58, 112, 153
OKLCh
52.6% 0.087 243.4°
CIELAB (D50)
44.9, -8.6, -28.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.2; on black, Lc -25.5. 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 15.3 and 14.4 and 12.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.31:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.96:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.31:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3a7099
protanopia
#6c6c99 · ΔE00 15.3
deuteranopia
#64649a · ΔE00 14.4
tritanopia
#5a5ad7 · ΔE00 12.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPhenomenon at ΔE00 0.878: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- PhenomenonΔE00 0.878 · #3e729b
- Vallarta BlueΔE00 0.893 · #35709d
- National AnthemΔE00 1.071 · #3f6f98
- Muted BlueΔE00 1.326 · #3b719f
- NavalΔE00 1.897 · #41729f
- LochmaraΔE00 1.964 · #316ea0
- Rainy LakeΔE00 2.082 · #3f6c8f
- Deep WaterΔE00 2.093 · #2a6fa1
- Decoration BlueΔE00 2.273 · #3f74a3
- Postwar BoomΔE00 2.357 · #466f97
- Big Sur Blue JadeΔE00 2.392 · #3f6e8e
- Dull BlueΔE00 2.757 · #49759c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.