Bellflower
#5d66aa
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#5d66aa
RGB
93, 102, 170
OKLCh
53.4% 0.107 276.4°
CIELAB (D50)
44.8, 10.6, -38.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.4; on black, Lc -25.4. 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
5.32:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.95:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.32:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5d66aa
protanopia
#6565aa · ΔE00 2.4
deuteranopia
#6363aa · ΔE00 2.3
tritanopia
#6262b7 · ΔE00 2.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isElectrify at ΔE00 1.904: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- ElectrifyΔE00 1.904 · #5665a0
- Iris BloomΔE00 1.96 · #5b649e
- Evening LagoonΔE00 2.027 · #5868ae
- Submarine BaseΔE00 2.165 · #5566aa
- Blue IrisΔE00 2.177 · #6264a6
- Twinkle NightΔE00 2.363 · #636ca8
- Loch NessΔE00 2.643 · #5f6db0
- Bluish Purple AnemoneΔE00 2.826 · #6666bb
- Violet StormΔE00 2.864 · #5c619d
- MediaevalΔE00 3.352 · #696db0
- Chetwode BlueΔE00 3.507 · #666fb4
- MoonshadeΔE00 3.71 · #5a6e9c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.