Genie
#3e4364
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
#3e4364
RGB
62, 67, 100
OKLCh
39.3% 0.056 276.9°
CIELAB (D50)
29.1, 4.8, -20.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.2; on black, Lc -10.3. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
9.58:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.19:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.58:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3e4364
protanopia
#424264 · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#424264 · ΔE00 2.1
tritanopia
#41416c · ΔE00 3.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChronicle at ΔE00 0.747: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ChronicleΔE00 0.747 · #3e4265
- Church BlueΔE00 0.815 · #3d4161
- Deep CobaltΔE00 1.382 · #424769
- Blue WonderΔE00 1.405 · #404664
- MangosteenΔE00 1.88 · #383e5d
- WooedΔE00 1.995 · #40446c
- Raven NightΔE00 2.063 · #3b3f66
- Deepest FigΔE00 2.126 · #454669
- Gloomy BlueΔE00 2.252 · #3c416a
- Nobility BlueΔE00 2.261 · #414969
- Palace ArmsΔE00 2.326 · #43456d
- Majestic BlueΔE00 2.48 · #3f425c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.