Midnight Interlude
#32496f
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
#32496f
RGB
50, 73, 111
OKLCh
40.5% 0.070 260.1°
CIELAB (D50)
30.5, 0.1, -25.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.7; on black, Lc -11.6. 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 7.9 and 7.6 and 6.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.06:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.32:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.06:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#32496f
protanopia
#47476f · ΔE00 7.9
deuteranopia
#43436f · ΔE00 7.6
tritanopia
#3f3f8c · ΔE00 6.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSailboat at ΔE00 0.692: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- SailboatΔE00 0.692 · #314a72
- Hydrogen BlueΔE00 1.07 · #33476d
- DragonflyΔE00 1.274 · #314a76
- AirforceΔE00 1.492 · #364d70
- Enchanted NavyΔE00 1.586 · #2d4a71
- Forlorn CruiseΔE00 1.747 · #34466c
- Naval BlueΔE00 1.838 · #384b6b
- Blue FunkΔE00 1.929 · #2d4470
- Noble KnightΔE00 2.118 · #394d78
- Bona FideΔE00 2.199 · #304471
- Daring IndigoΔE00 2.234 · #374874
- Black TurmericΔE00 2.415 · #2c4364
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.