Into the Stratosphere
#425267
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
#425267
RGB
66, 82, 103
OKLCh
43.4% 0.040 255.4°
CIELAB (D50)
34.2, -2.1, -14.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 28% 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 87.6; on black, Lc -14.5. 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 8.1 and 8.4 and 9.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.97:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.63:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.97:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#425267
protanopia
#505067 · ΔE00 8.1
deuteranopia
#4e4e67 · ΔE00 8.4
tritanopia
#4b4b83 · ΔE00 9.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNavy Damask at ΔE00 0.504: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Navy DamaskΔE00 0.504 · #425166
- December EveΔE00 0.775 · #415064
- InkjetΔE00 1.079 · #44556b
- AdmiraltyΔE00 1.553 · #404e61
- Midnight MosaicΔE00 1.908 · #3d5267
- InkedΔE00 1.951 · #3b5066
- Calico DressΔE00 2.063 · #3d4e67
- RainmakerΔE00 2.144 · #485769
- Deep ReservoirΔE00 2.227 · #424f5f
- Luna PierΔE00 2.279 · #414d62
- Breakaway BlueΔE00 2.422 · #424d60
- Hidden SapphireΔE00 2.426 · #445771
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.