King Triton
#3c85be
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#3c85be
RGB
60, 133, 190
OKLCh
59.6% 0.114 245.0°
CIELAB (D50)
52.9, -9.2, -37.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.8; on black, Lc -34.9. 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 16.7 and 15.9 and 14.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.97:1 — large text only
Black text
5.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#327cb4 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3c85be
protanopia
#7f7fbe · ΔE00 16.7
deuteranopia
#7575bf · ΔE00 15.9
tritanopia
#6969ff · ΔE00 14.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWarm Spring at ΔE00 0.727: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Warm SpringΔE00 0.727 · #4286bc
- Curious BlueΔE00 1.24 · #3d85b8
- Walker LakeΔE00 1.311 · #3d87bb
- Pat-A-PepΔE00 1.318 · #3887bd
- Cool BlueΔE00 1.663 · #4984b8
- Klaxosaur BlueΔE00 1.752 · #2987c7
- Steel BlueΔE00 1.839 · #4682b4
- Casting SeaΔE00 2.335 · #4586c7
- Sea Salt RiversΔE00 2.677 · #5087bd
- Water BlueΔE00 2.761 · #0e87cc
- SeabrookΔE00 2.787 · #4b81af
- Cyan AzureΔE00 2.793 · #4e82b4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.