Queen Blue
#436b95
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#436b95
RGB
67, 107, 149
OKLCh
51.7% 0.081 250.7°
CIELAB (D50)
43.7, -4.8, -27.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.7; on black, Lc -24.1. 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 12.3 and 11.5 and 9.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.56:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.78:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.56:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#436b95
protanopia
#676795 · ΔE00 12.3
deuteranopia
#616195 · ΔE00 11.5
tritanopia
#5a5ac7 · ΔE00 9.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPostwar Boom at ΔE00 1.54: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Postwar BoomΔE00 1.54 · #466f97
- Star SapphireΔE00 1.68 · #3c6a9d
- Honky Tonk BlueΔE00 1.714 · #446a8d
- Snake RiverΔE00 1.758 · #45698c
- Too BlueΔE00 1.992 · #3d6695
- National AnthemΔE00 2.125 · #3f6f98
- RiversideΔE00 2.298 · #4e6f95
- Summerday BlueΔE00 2.433 · #376698
- Blue Ribbon BeautyΔE00 2.552 · #3e6490
- Rainy LakeΔE00 2.565 · #3f6c8f
- French Mirage BlueΔE00 2.594 · #446688
- Wickford BayΔE00 2.659 · #4f6c8f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.