Starstruck
#4664a5
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#4664a5
RGB
70, 100, 165
OKLCh
51.1% 0.110 264.2°
CIELAB (D50)
42.4, 4.3, -39.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.8; on black, Lc -23.0. 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 7.7 and 7.3 and 7.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.79:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.63:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.79:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4664a5
protanopia
#6161a5 · ΔE00 7.7
deuteranopia
#5c5ca5 · ΔE00 7.3
tritanopia
#5757c8 · ΔE00 7.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMariner at ΔE00 1.093: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- MarinerΔE00 1.093 · #42639f
- Indigo BatikΔE00 1.397 · #4467a7
- Kakitsubata BlueΔE00 1.611 · #3e62ad
- Bio BlueΔE00 2.064 · #465f9e
- Blue DahliaΔE00 2.275 · #415e9c
- RaftsmanΔE00 2.484 · #3c5f9b
- Bright CobaltΔE00 2.621 · #3c6098
- InternationalΔE00 2.743 · #3762a5
- IntegraΔE00 2.771 · #405e95
- Last Light BlueΔE00 2.899 · #475f94
- Blue OdysseyΔE00 2.906 · #4f6997
- Sea of GalileeΔE00 2.917 · #466590
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.