Inkjet
#44556b
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
#44556b
RGB
68, 85, 107
OKLCh
44.4% 0.042 255.1°
CIELAB (D50)
35.4, -2.3, -15.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 29% 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 86.4; on black, Lc -15.6. 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 8.4 and 8.7 and 8.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.62:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.76:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.62:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#44556b
protanopia
#53536b · ΔE00 8.4
deuteranopia
#50506b · ΔE00 8.7
tritanopia
#4d4d88 · ΔE00 8.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isInto the Stratosphere at ΔE00 1.079: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Into the StratosphereΔE00 1.079 · #425267
- Navy DamaskΔE00 1.47 · #425166
- Hidden SapphireΔE00 1.55 · #445771
- RainmakerΔE00 1.744 · #485769
- December EveΔE00 1.846 · #415064
- Bluster BlueΔE00 1.852 · #4a5a6f
- Bering SeaΔE00 1.911 · #4b596e
- Motor City BlueΔE00 1.941 · #495a6e
- Midnight MosaicΔE00 2.14 · #3d5267
- SnoopΔE00 2.336 · #49556c
- InkedΔE00 2.425 · #3b5066
- Champlain BlueΔE00 2.54 · #435572
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.