Mykonos
#387abe
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#387abe
RGB
56, 122, 190
OKLCh
56.9% 0.125 251.5°
CIELAB (D50)
49.4, -4.0, -42.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.7; on black, Lc -30.9. 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 14.4 and 13.8 and 13.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.47:1 — large text only
Black text
4.70:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.70:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#387abe is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#387abe
protanopia
#7575be · ΔE00 14.4
deuteranopia
#6c6cbf · ΔE00 13.8
tritanopia
#6060fd · ΔE00 13.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWindows Blue at ΔE00 0.821: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Windows BlueΔE00 0.821 · #3778bf
- Celestial PlumΔE00 0.975 · #3c7ac2
- Heirloom HydrangeaΔE00 1.518 · #327ccb
- Tufts BlueΔE00 1.537 · #417dc1
- North Atlantic BreezeΔE00 1.758 · #3676b5
- Blue-Eyed BoyΔE00 1.973 · #2277cc
- Fading NightΔE00 2.028 · #3377cc
- BluishΔE00 2.028 · #2976bb
- Amalfi CoastΔE00 2.031 · #297cbf
- Viennese BlueΔE00 2.039 · #4278af
- PetrelΔE00 2.071 · #4076b4
- ParkwaterΔE00 2.095 · #477bbd
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.