God of Rain
#4466cc
A blue that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#4466cc
RGB
68, 102, 204
OKLCh
54.0% 0.163 267.0°
CIELAB (D50)
44.9, 13.8, -57.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.6; on black, Lc -26.1. 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 6.7 and 6.6 and 7.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.23:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.02:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.23:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4466cc
protanopia
#6363cc · ΔE00 6.7
deuteranopia
#5e5ecc · ΔE00 6.6
tritanopia
#5757eb · ΔE00 7.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHan Blue at ΔE00 2.206: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Han BlueΔE00 2.206 · #446ccf
- MonarchistΔE00 2.248 · #4b62d2
- Royal BlueΔE00 2.478 · #4169e1
- Savoy BlueΔE00 2.507 · #4b61d1
- Azraq BlueΔE00 2.937 · #4c6cb3
- BluetifulΔE00 3.048 · #3c69e7
- Borage BlueΔE00 3.189 · #5566cc
- The Rainbow FishΔE00 3.505 · #4466ee
- Waterline BlueΔE00 3.537 · #436bad
- Thick BlueΔE00 3.701 · #5566dd
- Indigo BatikΔE00 3.701 · #4467a7
- Kakitsubata BlueΔE00 3.718 · #3e62ad
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.