Sea Goddess
#216987
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#216987
RGB
33, 105, 135
OKLCh
49.1% 0.084 230.1°
CIELAB (D50)
41.1, -14.7, -23.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 86% 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 80.2; on black, Lc -21.6. 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 19.5 and 18.7 and 17.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.11:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.44:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.11:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#216987
protanopia
#646487 · ΔE00 19.5
deuteranopia
#5b5b88 · ΔE00 18.7
tritanopia
#4f4fcf · ΔE00 17.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSaxony Blue at ΔE00 0.836: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Saxony BlueΔE00 0.836 · #216b88
- BondiΔE00 1.427 · #16698c
- Chill of the NightΔE00 1.581 · #256d8d
- FaienceΔE00 1.592 · #2a6d8b
- Techno BlueΔE00 1.739 · #006b8b
- Georgian BayΔE00 1.83 · #22657f
- CopacabanaΔE00 1.864 · #006c8d
- Bowerbird BlueΔE00 2.076 · #006585
- Journey Into NightΔE00 2.102 · #016584
- Pure Light BlueΔE00 2.197 · #036c91
- Ocean CallΔE00 2.215 · #2b6c8e
- AnselΔE00 2.27 · #016884
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.