Galaxy Express
#444499
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#444499
RGB
68, 68, 153
OKLCh
43.5% 0.135 279.2°
CIELAB (D50)
32.6, 19.8, -47.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.4; on black, Lc -13.8. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
8.29:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.53:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.29:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#444499
protanopia
#444499 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#444499 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#444499 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlueberry at ΔE00 1.392: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- BlueberryΔE00 1.392 · #464196
- Spectrum BlueΔE00 1.997 · #44448d
- Clematis BlueΔE00 2.927 · #3c3d8a
- Merlin’s RobeΔE00 3.126 · #444c8f
- Queen of the Night ShiftΔE00 3.246 · #3d4585
- LibertyΔE00 3.33 · #514b98
- Megadrive ScreenΔE00 3.362 · #4a40ad
- Nauseous BlueΔE00 3.92 · #483d8b
- Beaded BlueΔE00 3.962 · #494d8b
- Early Spring NightΔE00 4.014 · #3c3fb1
- Moonlight SonataΔE00 4.167 · #4e468b
- Deep UltramarineΔE00 4.22 · #404f95
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.