HueComb

Mysterious Depths

#060929

A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very dark — white text sits on it comfortably, black text does not.

Hex

#060929

RGB

6, 9, 41

OKLCh

16.3% 0.065 272.1°

CIELAB (D50)

3.3, 5.8, -20.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 105.5; 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

19.47:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.08:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at19.47:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#060929

protanopia

#090929 · ΔE00 0.9

deuteranopia

#080829 · ΔE00 0.9

tritanopia

#08082c · ΔE00 1.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHadopelagic Water at ΔE00 1.691: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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