Marina
#5a88c8
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#5a88c8
RGB
90, 136, 200
OKLCh
62.2% 0.110 256.8°
CIELAB (D50)
55.5, -1.8, -38.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 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 63.7; on black, Lc -38.0. 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 11.6 and 11.0 and 10.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.63:1 — large text only
Black text
5.79:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.79:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4b78b7 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5a88c8
protanopia
#8484c8 · ΔE00 11.6
deuteranopia
#7d7dc8 · ΔE00 11.0
tritanopia
#7474ff · ΔE00 10.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBerlin Blue at ΔE00 0.892: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Berlin BlueΔE00 0.892 · #5588cc
- DanubeΔE00 1.224 · #5b89c0
- Havelock BlueΔE00 1.555 · #5784c1
- Astro NauticoΔE00 1.939 · #5383c3
- Blueberry PopoverΔE00 1.95 · #5488c0
- Blue JayΔE00 2.066 · #5588dd
- Sea NoteΔE00 2.196 · #5482c2
- ProvenceΔE00 2.232 · #658dc6
- Royal RegattaΔE00 2.534 · #678bc9
- Blue SonkiΔE00 2.556 · #4a87cb
- RegattaΔE00 2.668 · #5382bb
- Cobalt GlowΔE00 2.673 · #648fc4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.