Night Kite
#005572
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#005572
RGB
0, 85, 114
OKLCh
42.1% 0.084 230.0°
CIELAB (D50)
33.0, -14.1, -23.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 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 88.0; on black, Lc -14.1. 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 19.2 and 18.6 and 16.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.26:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.54:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.26:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#005572
protanopia
#505072 · ΔE00 19.2
deuteranopia
#484873 · ΔE00 18.6
tritanopia
#3d3db1 · ΔE00 16.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTardis at ΔE00 0.898: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- TardisΔE00 0.898 · #105673
- Moroccan BlueΔE00 1.196 · #115674
- BroadwayΔE00 1.458 · #145775
- Blue PalisadeΔE00 1.494 · #01546d
- Ink BlueΔE00 1.687 · #0c5a77
- Studer BlueΔE00 1.807 · #005577
- Canoe BlueΔE00 1.822 · #1d5671
- Captain BlueΔE00 1.887 · #005171
- Job’s TearsΔE00 2.025 · #005b7a
- Gemstone BlueΔE00 2.104 · #004f6d
- SubaqueousΔE00 2.141 · #00576f
- World PeaceΔE00 2.239 · #005477
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.