Blueberry
#464196
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#464196
RGB
70, 65, 150
OKLCh
42.8% 0.135 281.7°
CIELAB (D50)
31.8, 21.3, -47.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.1; on black, Lc -13.1. 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.
- 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
8.55:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.46:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.55:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#464196
protanopia
#424296 · ΔE00 1.1
deuteranopia
#434396 · ΔE00 1.1
tritanopia
#444490 · ΔE00 1.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGalaxy Express 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.
- Galaxy ExpressΔE00 1.392 · #444499
- Spectrum BlueΔE00 1.879 · #44448d
- Clematis BlueΔE00 2.446 · #3c3d8a
- Nauseous BlueΔE00 2.618 · #483d8b
- Blue GemΔE00 2.968 · #4b3c8e
- LibertyΔE00 3.414 · #514b98
- Royal WisteriaΔE00 3.446 · #463699
- Megadrive ScreenΔE00 3.448 · #4a40ad
- Moonlight SonataΔE00 3.531 · #4e468b
- Queen of the Night ShiftΔE00 3.64 · #3d4585
- Merlin’s RobeΔE00 4.051 · #444c8f
- Jacksons PurpleΔE00 4.092 · #3d3f7d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.