Shipyard
#4f6f85
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
#4f6f85
RGB
79, 111, 133
OKLCh
52.6% 0.051 239.0°
CIELAB (D50)
45.0, -7.4, -16.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.4; on black, Lc -25.3. 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 13.6 and 14.0 and 10.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.32:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.94:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.32:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4f6f85
protanopia
#6c6c85 · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#676785 · ΔE00 14.0
tritanopia
#6161b8 · ΔE00 10.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHappy Days at ΔE00 0.801: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Happy DaysΔE00 0.801 · #506e82
- OceanicΔE00 0.837 · #4f6d82
- Inky BlueΔE00 1.589 · #4e7287
- Blue LonelinessΔE00 1.649 · #486d83
- Eames for BlueΔE00 2.088 · #466b82
- Captains BlueΔE00 2.096 · #557088
- Blue StoneΔE00 2.129 · #577284
- Metallic BlueΔE00 2.191 · #4f738e
- Cape Cod BayΔE00 2.34 · #557080
- Thundering CloudsΔE00 2.482 · #597388
- Folk BlueΔE00 2.599 · #547588
- Lily Pond BlueΔE00 2.707 · #55707f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.