3AM in Shibuya
#225577
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#225577
RGB
34, 85, 119
OKLCh
43.1% 0.078 241.2°
CIELAB (D50)
34.0, -8.4, -24.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.4; on black, Lc -14.7. 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 15.3 and 14.5 and 12.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.97:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.63:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.97:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#225577
protanopia
#515177 · ΔE00 15.3
deuteranopia
#4a4a78 · ΔE00 14.5
tritanopia
#4242ab · ΔE00 12.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMidnight Sonata at ΔE00 0.71: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Midnight SonataΔE00 0.71 · #225374
- Royal BreezeΔE00 0.846 · #275779
- Queen of the NightΔE00 1.156 · #295776
- Sea HunterΔE00 1.278 · #245878
- Venice BlueΔE00 1.43 · #2c5778
- Heavy BlueΔE00 1.456 · #2c5674
- SacrificeΔE00 1.649 · #2a5774
- Bahama BlueΔE00 1.763 · #25597f
- Mountain LakeΔE00 2.308 · #2d5975
- Ocean SprayΔE00 2.341 · #005379
- Blueberry TwistΔE00 2.362 · #24547d
- Real MccoyΔE00 2.498 · #00577e
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.