Mythical Night
#1c2e63
A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#1c2e63
RGB
28, 46, 99
OKLCh
31.9% 0.097 266.8°
CIELAB (D50)
19.9, 8.1, -34.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 98.9; 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
12.96:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.62:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.96:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#1c2e63
protanopia
#2c2c63 · ΔE00 4.5
deuteranopia
#2a2a63 · ΔE00 4.4
tritanopia
#262673 · ΔE00 4.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEnding Navy Blue at ΔE00 1.542: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Ending Navy BlueΔE00 1.542 · #1c305c
- Schiava BlueΔE00 1.57 · #192961
- Underwater RealmΔE00 1.671 · #243062
- Passionate BlueΔE00 1.952 · #1f3465
- Navy TrimΔE00 2.02 · #203462
- Ultramarine VioletΔE00 2.303 · #1d2a58
- Pico VoidΔE00 2.901 · #1d2b53
- Blue LeviathanΔE00 3.056 · #032a62
- Atlantic NavyΔE00 3.192 · #13336f
- Dark SapphireΔE00 3.205 · #082567
- Old Glory BlueΔE00 3.272 · #002868
- Elite BlueΔE00 3.284 · #1b3053
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.