Crashing Waves
#3e6f87
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#3e6f87
RGB
62, 111, 135
OKLCh
51.7% 0.065 231.1°
CIELAB (D50)
44.1, -11.8, -18.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.3; on black, Lc -24.5. 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 17.5 and 17.4 and 14.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.49:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.83:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.49:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3e6f87
protanopia
#6b6b87 · ΔE00 17.5
deuteranopia
#646488 · ΔE00 17.4
tritanopia
#5b5bc8 · ΔE00 14.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBering Wave at ΔE00 0.791: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bering WaveΔE00 0.791 · #3d6d84
- Am I Blue?ΔE00 0.798 · #417086
- CalypsoΔE00 1.013 · #3d7188
- AstralΔE00 1.062 · #376f89
- Santorini BlueΔE00 1.069 · #416d83
- Living StreamΔE00 1.419 · #37708c
- DownpourΔE00 1.461 · #43718b
- Lake StreamΔE00 1.533 · #3e6b83
- Sojourn BlueΔE00 1.852 · #416f8b
- Bengal BlueΔE00 2.016 · #38738b
- Soul SearchΔE00 2.139 · #377290
- Big Ocean WaveΔE00 2.236 · #34708f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.