Canadian Tuxedo
#579aca
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#579aca
RGB
87, 154, 202
OKLCh
66.1% 0.099 241.5°
CIELAB (D50)
60.7, -11.4, -31.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.2; on black, Lc -44.6. 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 17.2 and 16.3 and 14.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.05:1 — large text only
Black text
6.88:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.88:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#397cab 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
#579aca
protanopia
#9494ca · ΔE00 17.2
deuteranopia
#8b8bcb · ΔE00 16.3
tritanopia
#7f7fff · ΔE00 14.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTall Waves at ΔE00 0.891: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tall WavesΔE00 0.891 · #5c9bcc
- Blue IguanaΔE00 0.969 · #539ccc
- Blueberry Soft BlueΔE00 1.845 · #5e96c3
- Blue ParadiseΔE00 1.876 · #5095c3
- Picton BlueΔE00 1.883 · #5ba0d0
- Blue TourmalineΔE00 2.069 · #4997d0
- Blessed BlueΔE00 2.109 · #4499cc
- TantaliseΔE00 2.314 · #669ccb
- Perfect SkyΔE00 2.395 · #4596cf
- Sub-ZeroΔE00 2.499 · #57a1ce
- Mountain BluebirdΔE00 2.615 · #4c98c2
- Winter LakeΔE00 2.651 · #5c97cf
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.