HueComb

Mermaid Dreams

#0088bb

A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#0088bb

RGB

0, 136, 187

OKLCh

59.1% 0.123 233.9°

CIELAB (D50)

52.6, -17.5, -36.0

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 66.7; on black, Lc -34.9. 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 21.5 and 20.9 and 20.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.01:1 — large text only

Black text

5.24:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.24:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#007faf is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#0088bb

protanopia

#8181bb · ΔE00 21.5

deuteranopia

#7474bc · ΔE00 20.9

tritanopia

#6363ff · ΔE00 20.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isForget-Me-Not at ΔE00 0.878: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Forget-Me-NotΔE00 0.878 · #0087bd
  • Dresden BlueΔE00 0.918 · #0086bb
  • Ibiza BlueΔE00 1.095 · #0086bc
  • Celebration BlueΔE00 1.816 · #008bc4
  • Lucario BlueΔE00 1.82 · #0b83b5
  • Cyan Cornflower BlueΔE00 1.845 · #188bc2
  • Azul CaribeΔE00 2.024 · #0089c4
  • Blue SplashΔE00 2.082 · #2e85b1
  • Hawaiian SurfΔE00 2.299 · #008dbb
  • Parrotfish BlueΔE00 2.501 · #028fc4
  • Primal BlueΔE00 2.6 · #0081b5
  • Hidden SpringsΔE00 2.66 · #1b8cb6

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