Cry Me a River
#427898
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
#427898
RGB
66, 120, 152
OKLCh
54.9% 0.076 236.4°
CIELAB (D50)
47.7, -11.3, -23.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.2; on black, Lc -28.5. 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 17.2 and 16.4 and 13.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.80:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.37:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.80:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#427898
protanopia
#737398 · ΔE00 17.2
deuteranopia
#6c6c99 · ΔE00 16.4
tritanopia
#6262dc · ΔE00 13.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSea Swirl at ΔE00 0.772: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sea SwirlΔE00 0.772 · #427a9a
- Blue Dart FrogΔE00 1.436 · #3a7a9b
- PeninsulaΔE00 1.508 · #37799c
- Linoleum BlueΔE00 1.522 · #427c9d
- Sea DrifterΔE00 1.614 · #4b7794
- Harbour BlueΔE00 1.71 · #417491
- Cottage by the SeaΔE00 1.842 · #357697
- Male BettaΔE00 1.851 · #347699
- Fun and GamesΔE00 1.865 · #33789c
- Antarctic BlueΔE00 2.345 · #4b789b
- ZenithΔE00 2.405 · #497a9f
- Tech WaveΔE00 2.418 · #4c7a9d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.