One Year of Rain
#29465b
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#29465b
RGB
41, 70, 91
OKLCh
38.1% 0.050 241.3°
CIELAB (D50)
28.2, -6.1, -16.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.9; on black, Lc -9.6. 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 12.7 and 13.1 and 10.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.90:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.12:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.90:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#29465b
protanopia
#43435b · ΔE00 12.7
deuteranopia
#3f3f5b · ΔE00 13.1
tritanopia
#3a3a82 · ΔE00 10.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIndigo Streamer at ΔE00 0.278: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Indigo StreamerΔE00 0.278 · #2a465b
- Reef ResortΔE00 1.34 · #274256
- Indigo Go-GoΔE00 1.666 · #234156
- Blue Wing TealΔE00 1.796 · #2e4556
- Black Forest BlueΔE00 1.837 · #29485a
- Dark Slate BlueΔE00 2.017 · #214761
- Astronaut BlueΔE00 2.041 · #214559
- Deep OceanΔE00 2.048 · #2a4b5f
- Blue FedoraΔE00 2.246 · #324c61
- Salty DogΔE00 2.399 · #234058
- ArapawaΔE00 2.447 · #274a5d
- Majolica BlueΔE00 2.556 · #2d4b65
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.