Wizard
#4d5b88
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#4d5b88
RGB
77, 91, 136
OKLCh
47.9% 0.075 270.2°
CIELAB (D50)
39.0, 4.0, -27.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 25% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.7; on black, Lc -19.2. 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
6.63:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.17:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.63:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4d5b88
protanopia
#5a5a88 · ΔE00 4.6
deuteranopia
#575788 · ΔE00 4.4
tritanopia
#54549d · ΔE00 4.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGem at ΔE00 0.373: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- GemΔE00 0.373 · #4d5b8a
- MarlinΔE00 1.402 · #515b87
- Yacht Club BlueΔE00 1.538 · #485783
- Indigo Navy BlueΔE00 1.621 · #4c5e87
- Nightly SilhouetteΔE00 1.812 · #4f5b93
- True NavyΔE00 1.837 · #465784
- Fresh TakeΔE00 1.849 · #505b93
- Karmic GrapeΔE00 1.948 · #545f8a
- Dark IrisΔE00 2.088 · #4d5a7e
- Piccadilly PurpleΔE00 2.191 · #51588e
- Rich VioletΔE00 2.246 · #50578b
- Baby WhaleΔE00 2.419 · #4d5588
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.