Song of the Sea
#4a73a8
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#4a73a8
RGB
74, 115, 168
OKLCh
54.9% 0.095 255.4°
CIELAB (D50)
47.2, -2.5, -33.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.6; on black, Lc -28.1. 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 11.2 and 10.6 and 9.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.87:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.31:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.87:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4a73a8
protanopia
#6f6fa8 · ΔE00 11.2
deuteranopia
#6969a8 · ΔE00 10.6
tritanopia
#6161da · ΔE00 9.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreat Serpent at ΔE00 0.763: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Great SerpentΔE00 0.763 · #4a72a3
- Croquet BlueΔE00 1.129 · #4971ad
- RamjetΔE00 1.174 · #4c73af
- Sail OnΔE00 1.415 · #4575ad
- PlunderΔE00 1.647 · #5072a9
- Cobalt FlameΔE00 1.846 · #4e719d
- Sage Blossom BlueΔE00 1.927 · #4e78a9
- Wide SkyΔE00 1.947 · #416faf
- SinatraΔE00 1.957 · #4675b7
- Flying FishΔE00 1.96 · #5376ab
- Billycart BlueΔE00 2.046 · #4c77a4
- PacificaΔE00 2.057 · #4e77a3
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.