Cascade Twilight
#234893
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#234893
RGB
35, 72, 147
OKLCh
41.9% 0.131 262.5°
CIELAB (D50)
31.3, 8.5, -46.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.4; on black, Lc -12.9. 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 7.5 and 7.3 and 8.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.68:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.42:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.68:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#234893
protanopia
#454593 · ΔE00 7.5
deuteranopia
#404093 · ΔE00 7.3
tritanopia
#3939b0 · ΔE00 8.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNuit Blanche at ΔE00 0.942: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Nuit BlancheΔE00 0.942 · #1e488f
- Pacific NavyΔE00 0.993 · #25488a
- Indigo HamletΔE00 1.462 · #1f4788
- Space ExplorerΔE00 1.69 · #114499
- UnityΔE00 1.772 · #264d8e
- Florida WatersΔE00 1.939 · #2a4983
- Le Grand BleuΔE00 2.087 · #244e94
- LiberalistΔE00 2.258 · #0c4792
- Maritime OutpostΔE00 2.314 · #1e4581
- Coastal SurfΔE00 2.338 · #2d4982
- Sea of TearsΔE00 2.364 · #1d4da0
- Fright NightΔE00 2.374 · #004499
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.