Midnight Melancholia
#002266
A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#002266
RGB
0, 34, 102
OKLCh
28.3% 0.126 261.4°
CIELAB (D50)
15.2, 13.7, -43.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 101.0; on black, Lc 0.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 6.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.78:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.42:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.78:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#002266
protanopia
#202066 · ΔE00 4.8
deuteranopia
#1c1c66 · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#161676 · ΔE00 6.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Sea Nightmare at ΔE00 0.365: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Deep Sea NightmareΔE00 0.365 · #002366
- Deep SapphireΔE00 0.743 · #082466
- Dark SapphireΔE00 0.929 · #082567
- Black Sea NightΔE00 0.943 · #052462
- Abyssal DepthsΔE00 1.561 · #10246a
- Pure MidnightΔE00 1.84 · #112266
- Old Glory BlueΔE00 2.125 · #002868
- Midnight CrestΔE00 2.477 · #112473
- DownriverΔE00 2.491 · #092256
- Long-Haul FlightΔE00 2.51 · #002277
- ClarinetΔE00 2.571 · #002255
- Fibonacci BlueΔE00 2.794 · #112358
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.