Dancing Sea
#1c4d8f
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#1c4d8f
RGB
28, 77, 143
OKLCh
42.5% 0.121 257.1°
CIELAB (D50)
32.4, 3.0, -42.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.5; on black, Lc -13.7. 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 10.0 and 9.8 and 10.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.37:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.51:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.37:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#1c4d8f
protanopia
#49498f · ΔE00 10.0
deuteranopia
#43438f · ΔE00 9.8
tritanopia
#3b3bb5 · ΔE00 10.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweat Bee at ΔE00 0.329: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sweat BeeΔE00 0.329 · #1d4e8f
- Olympian BlueΔE00 0.439 · #1c4c8c
- Iron BlueΔE00 0.885 · #114b91
- Turkish SeaΔE00 0.928 · #194f90
- Yale BlueΔE00 1.068 · #0f4d92
- Night ModeΔE00 1.127 · #234e86
- Nautical BlueΔE00 1.193 · #1a5091
- Le Grand BleuΔE00 1.274 · #244e94
- Clear Night SkyΔE00 1.325 · #214f86
- UnityΔE00 1.352 · #264d8e
- Blue NudeΔE00 1.651 · #29518c
- Lady of the NightΔE00 1.911 · #05498b
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.