Naval
#41729f
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#41729f
RGB
65, 114, 159
OKLCh
53.7% 0.089 247.9°
CIELAB (D50)
46.1, -6.5, -29.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.9; on black, Lc -26.8. 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 13.8 and 13.0 and 11.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.08:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.13:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.08:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#41729f
protanopia
#6e6e9f · ΔE00 13.8
deuteranopia
#6767a0 · ΔE00 13.0
tritanopia
#5e5ed9 · ΔE00 11.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDecoration Blue at ΔE00 0.919: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Decoration BlueΔE00 0.919 · #3f74a3
- Muted BlueΔE00 0.934 · #3b719f
- PhenomenonΔE00 1.349 · #3e729b
- National AnthemΔE00 1.475 · #3f6f98
- Flat BlueΔE00 1.477 · #3c73a8
- Postwar BoomΔE00 1.751 · #466f97
- Dull BlueΔE00 1.773 · #49759c
- WindsurfingΔE00 1.897 · #3a7099
- Vallarta BlueΔE00 1.949 · #35709d
- Mega BlueΔE00 2.059 · #366fa6
- Blue TriumphΔE00 2.214 · #4376ab
- Field BlueΔE00 2.286 · #4477aa
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.