Sea of Galilee
#466590
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
#466590
RGB
70, 101, 144
OKLCh
50.2% 0.078 256.7°
CIELAB (D50)
41.8, -1.9, -27.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 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 79.7; on black, Lc -22.1. 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 9.9 and 9.3 and 7.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.96:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.52:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.96:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#466590
protanopia
#626290 · ΔE00 9.9
deuteranopia
#5d5d90 · ΔE00 9.3
tritanopia
#5757b9 · ΔE00 7.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFederal Blue at ΔE00 1.209: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Federal BlueΔE00 1.209 · #43628b
- Blue BeretΔE00 1.325 · #40638e
- Winter PalaceΔE00 1.646 · #41638a
- Blue Ribbon BeautyΔE00 1.726 · #3e6490
- Too BlueΔE00 2.165 · #3d6695
- Blue OdysseyΔE00 2.37 · #4f6997
- MarinerΔE00 2.372 · #42639f
- Functional BlueΔE00 2.427 · #3f6086
- Dutch BlueΔE00 2.436 · #4e6594
- Mississippi RiverΔE00 2.579 · #3b638c
- Bright CobaltΔE00 2.58 · #3c6098
- DelftΔE00 2.585 · #3d5e8c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.