Beach View
#4f7694
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
#4f7694
RGB
79, 118, 148
OKLCh
54.9% 0.064 242.4°
CIELAB (D50)
47.7, -7.7, -20.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.4; on black, Lc -28.3. 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 14.4 and 14.0 and 10.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.83:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.35:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.83:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4f7694
protanopia
#727294 · ΔE00 14.4
deuteranopia
#6c6c95 · ΔE00 14.0
tritanopia
#6565cc · ΔE00 10.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSea Drifter at ΔE00 1.322: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sea DrifterΔE00 1.322 · #4b7794
- Metallic BlueΔE00 1.42 · #4f738e
- Hammerhead SharkΔE00 1.575 · #4e7496
- Antarctic BlueΔE00 1.596 · #4b789b
- Stormy RidgeΔE00 1.943 · #507b9a
- Melancholic SeaΔE00 1.988 · #53778f
- Storm BlueΔE00 2.049 · #507b9c
- Tech WaveΔE00 2.051 · #4c7a9d
- Copen BlueΔE00 2.363 · #57748d
- Dull BlueΔE00 2.435 · #49759c
- ZenithΔE00 2.478 · #497a9f
- Mallorca BlueΔE00 2.542 · #517b95
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.