Stellar
#46647e
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
#46647e
RGB
70, 100, 126
OKLCh
49.1% 0.055 245.4°
CIELAB (D50)
40.8, -5.7, -18.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.9; on black, Lc -21.0. 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 12.5 and 12.6 and 9.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.20:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.38:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.20:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#46647e
protanopia
#61617e · ΔE00 12.5
deuteranopia
#5c5c7e · ΔE00 12.6
tritanopia
#5757ab · ΔE00 9.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReal Teal at ΔE00 1.194: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Real TealΔE00 1.194 · #45657d
- Blue AshesΔE00 1.516 · #406482
- Gloomy SeaΔE00 1.812 · #4a657a
- Mountain RiverΔE00 2.209 · #475f77
- Plum BlueΔE00 2.425 · #4b6176
- Good SamaritanΔE00 2.435 · #3f6782
- French Mirage BlueΔE00 2.49 · #446688
- Eclipse BlueΔE00 2.548 · #456074
- Night MarketΔE00 2.581 · #4c6177
- Scenic BlueΔE00 2.589 · #486275
- Team SpiritΔE00 2.594 · #416986
- Chinese PorcelainΔE00 2.607 · #3a5f7d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.