Mediterranean Blue
#1682b9
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#1682b9
RGB
22, 130, 185
OKLCh
57.7% 0.122 238.4°
CIELAB (D50)
50.8, -13.9, -37.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 95% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.0; on black, Lc -32.7. 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 19.8 and 19.1 and 18.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.26:1 — large text only
Black text
4.93:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.93:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#0d7eb5 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#1682b9
protanopia
#7b7bb9 · ΔE00 19.8
deuteranopia
#6f6fba · ΔE00 19.1
tritanopia
#6060ff · ΔE00 18.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTall Ships at ΔE00 0.454: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tall ShipsΔE00 0.454 · #0e81b9
- Meissen BlueΔE00 1.3 · #007fb9
- Primal BlueΔE00 1.334 · #0081b5
- Phuket PaletteΔE00 1.387 · #0480bd
- Lucario BlueΔE00 1.612 · #0b83b5
- Ibiza BlueΔE00 1.706 · #0086bc
- Dresden BlueΔE00 1.83 · #0086bb
- Artesian WaterΔE00 1.964 · #007db6
- Forget-Me-NotΔE00 2.029 · #0087bd
- Blue VacationΔE00 2.077 · #1e7eae
- Honolulu BlueΔE00 2.083 · #007fbf
- CapstanΔE00 2.281 · #007eb0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.