Night Mode
#234e86
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#234e86
RGB
35, 78, 134
OKLCh
42.4% 0.105 256.1°
CIELAB (D50)
32.4, 0.6, -36.4
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 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.6; on black, Lc -13.6. 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 10.2 and 9.8 and 9.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.38:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.51:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.38:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#234e86
protanopia
#4b4b86 · ΔE00 10.2
deuteranopia
#454586 · ΔE00 9.8
tritanopia
#3d3dad · ΔE00 9.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isClear Night Sky at ΔE00 0.618: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Clear Night SkyΔE00 0.618 · #214f86
- Olympian BlueΔE00 1.026 · #1c4c8c
- Sweat BeeΔE00 1.071 · #1d4e8f
- Dancing SeaΔE00 1.127 · #1c4d8f
- Blue NudeΔE00 1.324 · #29518c
- Turkish SeaΔE00 1.435 · #194f90
- UnityΔE00 1.455 · #264d8e
- AssassinΔE00 1.541 · #2d4f83
- Frank BlueΔE00 1.584 · #225288
- Nautical BlueΔE00 1.604 · #1a5091
- Galaxy BlueΔE00 1.63 · #2d5284
- Vegeta BlueΔE00 1.744 · #26538d
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.