Wing Commander
#0065ac
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#0065ac
RGB
0, 101, 172
OKLCh
49.7% 0.137 249.0°
CIELAB (D50)
40.9, -3.6, -45.7
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 79.7; on black, Lc -22.2. 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 15.2 and 14.8 and 15.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.07:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.46:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.07:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#0065ac
protanopia
#5f5fac · ΔE00 15.2
deuteranopia
#5656ad · ΔE00 14.8
tritanopia
#4949e8 · ΔE00 15.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCobalt Stone at ΔE00 0.643: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cobalt StoneΔE00 0.643 · #0264ae
- Directoire BlueΔE00 1.43 · #0061a8
- Prime BlueΔE00 1.758 · #0064a1
- Medium Persian BlueΔE00 1.769 · #0067a5
- LED BlueΔE00 1.819 · #0066a3
- Brigadier BlueΔE00 1.833 · #0063a0
- Ephren BlueΔE00 1.895 · #1164b4
- Les Cavaliers BeachΔE00 1.938 · #0f63b3
- Rave RegattaΔE00 2.305 · #00619d
- Barbados BlueΔE00 2.391 · #2766ac
- Distant BlueΔE00 2.422 · #2c66a0
- Blue DiamondΔE00 2.596 · #0b67be
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.