Sea Salt Rivers
#5087bd
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#5087bd
RGB
80, 135, 189
OKLCh
60.9% 0.101 249.4°
CIELAB (D50)
54.3, -6.4, -34.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.3; on black, Lc -36.4. 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 14.2 and 13.4 and 11.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.79:1 — large text only
Black text
5.54:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.54:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#447ab0 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5087bd
protanopia
#8282bd · ΔE00 14.2
deuteranopia
#7a7abe · ΔE00 13.4
tritanopia
#7070ff · ΔE00 11.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHandsome Hue at ΔE00 0.579: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Handsome HueΔE00 0.579 · #5286ba
- DazzleΔE00 0.673 · #5287b9
- Blueberry PopoverΔE00 0.928 · #5488c0
- HideoutΔE00 0.954 · #5386b7
- Silver Lake BlueΔE00 1.539 · #5686b4
- Blue VaultΔE00 1.58 · #4e83bd
- Cool BlueΔE00 1.593 · #4984b8
- Blue SmartΔE00 1.617 · #5786b4
- Casting SeaΔE00 1.741 · #4586c7
- Blue SonkiΔE00 1.917 · #4a87cb
- Cyan AzureΔE00 1.983 · #4e82b4
- Fisher KingΔE00 1.999 · #5182b9
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.