Dark Sapphire
#082567
A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#082567
RGB
8, 37, 103
OKLCh
29.3% 0.121 263.1°
CIELAB (D50)
16.5, 12.8, -42.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 100.5; 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.28:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.47:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.28:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#082567
protanopia
#232367 · ΔE00 4.7
deuteranopia
#1f1f67 · ΔE00 4.8
tritanopia
#1a1a77 · ΔE00 5.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Sapphire at ΔE00 0.352: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Deep SapphireΔE00 0.352 · #082466
- Deep Sea NightmareΔE00 0.745 · #002366
- Black Sea NightΔE00 0.77 · #052462
- Midnight MelancholiaΔE00 0.929 · #002266
- Abyssal DepthsΔE00 1.261 · #10246a
- Old Glory BlueΔE00 1.644 · #002868
- Pure MidnightΔE00 1.812 · #112266
- Midnight CrestΔE00 2.292 · #112473
- Schiava BlueΔE00 2.346 · #192961
- Blue LeviathanΔE00 2.514 · #032a62
- DownriverΔE00 2.531 · #092256
- Catalina BlueΔE00 2.636 · #062a78
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.