Dark Soul
#112255
A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#112255
RGB
17, 34, 85
OKLCh
27.3% 0.095 266.2°
CIELAB (D50)
14.5, 9.4, -33.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 101.8; 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
15.18:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.38:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.18:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#112255
protanopia
#212155 · ΔE00 3.9
deuteranopia
#1e1e55 · ΔE00 3.8
tritanopia
#1b1b62 · ΔE00 4.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFibonacci Blue at ΔE00 0.551: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fibonacci BlueΔE00 0.551 · #112358
- DownriverΔE00 1.225 · #092256
- SubnauticalΔE00 2.427 · #012253
- ClarinetΔE00 2.458 · #002255
- Schiava BlueΔE00 2.477 · #192961
- Ultramarine VioletΔE00 2.619 · #1d2a58
- Black Sea NightΔE00 2.692 · #052462
- Pure MidnightΔE00 2.799 · #112266
- Deep SapphireΔE00 2.961 · #082466
- Space CadetΔE00 3.051 · #1d2951
- Dark SapphireΔE00 3.162 · #082567
- Midnight MelancholiaΔE00 3.244 · #002266
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.