Loch Ness
#5f6db0
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#5f6db0
RGB
95, 109, 176
OKLCh
55.3% 0.105 273.5°
CIELAB (D50)
47.2, 8.6, -37.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 73.7; on black, Lc -28.0. 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
4.88:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.30:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.88:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5f6db0
protanopia
#6c6cb0 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#6969b0 · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#6666c4 · ΔE00 3.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGladiola Blue at ΔE00 1.405: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Gladiola BlueΔE00 1.405 · #6370b6
- Chetwode BlueΔE00 1.721 · #666fb4
- DormitoryΔE00 1.836 · #5d71a9
- Evening LagoonΔE00 2.065 · #5868ae
- Twinkle NightΔE00 2.148 · #636ca8
- Wild PansyΔE00 2.185 · #6373b4
- Chalcedony VioletΔE00 2.294 · #6770ae
- King’s RobeΔE00 2.528 · #6274ab
- BellflowerΔE00 2.643 · #5d66aa
- Splendour and PrideΔE00 2.694 · #5870a4
- Amparo BlueΔE00 2.698 · #556cb5
- MediaevalΔE00 2.852 · #696db0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.