Beyond the Sea
#005784
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#005784
RGB
0, 87, 132
OKLCh
43.7% 0.102 241.1°
CIELAB (D50)
34.5, -9.2, -32.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 86.5; on black, Lc -15.6. 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 16.4 and 15.7 and 14.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.79:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.70:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.79:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#005784
protanopia
#525284 · ΔE00 16.4
deuteranopia
#494985 · ΔE00 15.7
tritanopia
#3e3ebe · ΔE00 14.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSea Cave at ΔE00 0.688: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sea CaveΔE00 0.688 · #005986
- Grand BleuΔE00 1.13 · #015482
- Mykonos BlueΔE00 1.138 · #005780
- High ProfileΔE00 1.254 · #005a85
- ImpulseΔE00 1.449 · #005b87
- Whale’s TaleΔE00 1.562 · #115a82
- Dark DenimΔE00 1.738 · #005588
- Real MccoyΔE00 1.752 · #00577e
- Buccaneer BlueΔE00 1.762 · #035b8d
- Toy Submarine BlueΔE00 1.784 · #005280
- Stunning SapphireΔE00 1.833 · #185887
- Silk JewelΔE00 2.135 · #02517a
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.