Midnight Crest
#112473
A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#112473
RGB
17, 36, 115
OKLCh
30.7% 0.137 266.8°
CIELAB (D50)
17.6, 18.8, -48.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.8; 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
13.78:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.52:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.78:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#112473
protanopia
#222273 · ΔE00 2.9
deuteranopia
#202073 · ΔE00 3.0
tritanopia
#1c1c7e · ΔE00 3.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isImpression of Obscurity at ΔE00 1.273: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Impression of ObscurityΔE00 1.273 · #1a2578
- Long-Haul FlightΔE00 1.362 · #002277
- Abyssal DepthsΔE00 1.379 · #10246a
- Pure MidnightΔE00 1.966 · #112266
- Deep SapphireΔE00 2.26 · #082466
- Dark SapphireΔE00 2.292 · #082567
- St. Patrick’s BlueΔE00 2.468 · #23297a
- Midnight MelancholiaΔE00 2.477 · #002266
- Deep Sea NightmareΔE00 2.596 · #002366
- Catalina BlueΔE00 2.644 · #062a78
- SnorlaxΔE00 2.912 · #222277
- Resolution BlueΔE00 2.932 · #002387
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.