Arcane Brew
#5260e1
A blue that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#5260e1
RGB
82, 96, 225
OKLCh
55.2% 0.195 273.5°
CIELAB (D50)
45.4, 26.1, -68.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.7; on black, Lc -27.0. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
5.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.12:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5260e1
protanopia
#5f5fe1 · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#5c5ce1 · ΔE00 2.5
tritanopia
#5959ee · ΔE00 2.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThick Blue at ΔE00 1.882: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Thick BlueΔE00 1.882 · #5566dd
- Savoy BlueΔE00 2.286 · #4b61d1
- MonarchistΔE00 2.291 · #4b62d2
- Aquarius Mood IndigoΔE00 2.334 · #4d5af3
- Flickering SeaΔE00 2.64 · #5566ee
- Borage BlueΔE00 2.779 · #5566cc
- Exodus FruitΔE00 2.974 · #6264dc
- Warm BlueΔE00 3.011 · #4b57db
- Qing Dynasty DragonΔE00 3.418 · #4455ee
- The Rainbow FishΔE00 3.571 · #4466ee
- Hooloovoo BlueΔE00 3.939 · #4455ff
- Secret of ManaΔE00 4.065 · #4166f5
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.