Aegean Blue
#1b416f
A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#1b416f
RGB
27, 65, 111
OKLCh
37.3% 0.090 254.8°
CIELAB (D50)
26.7, -0.4, -31.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 93.7; on black, Lc -8.8. 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 9.8 and 9.4 and 8.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.33:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.03:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.33:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#1b416f
protanopia
#3e3e6f · ΔE00 9.8
deuteranopia
#39396f · ΔE00 9.4
tritanopia
#323291 · ΔE00 8.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAssault at ΔE00 0.834: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AssaultΔE00 0.834 · #1c4374
- Blue MosqueΔE00 1.04 · #21426b
- Ashenvale NightsΔE00 1.202 · #104071
- Fish Net BlueΔE00 1.208 · #1e446e
- Cold CurrentΔE00 1.493 · #234272
- Honourable BlueΔE00 1.819 · #164576
- Inoffensive BlueΔE00 1.893 · #114477
- Epic AdventureΔE00 2.004 · #0e426f
- Theatre BlueΔE00 2.015 · #21467a
- Pretty Twilight NightΔE00 2.099 · #254770
- NightlifeΔE00 2.113 · #27426b
- Twilight BlueΔE00 2.13 · #0a437a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.