HueComb

Hyperlink Blue

#0000ee

A blue that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#0000ee

RGB

0, 0, 238

OKLCh

42.9% 0.297 264.1°

CIELAB (D50)

27.3, 64.8, -106.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.1; on black, Lc -14.0. 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.
  • 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

9.40:1 — passes AA

Black text

2.23:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at9.40:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#0000ee

protanopia

#0000ee · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#0000ee · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#0000ee · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBurning Ultrablue at ΔE00 0.739: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.