Flood
#6677bb
A blue that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#6677bb
RGB
102, 119, 187
OKLCh
58.5% 0.106 272.1°
CIELAB (D50)
50.9, 7.6, -38.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.4; on black, Lc -32.3. 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.
- 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
4.27:1 — large text only
Black text
4.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6273b7 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
#6677bb
protanopia
#7575bb · ΔE00 4.6
deuteranopia
#7272bb · ΔE00 4.3
tritanopia
#6f6fd3 · ΔE00 4.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUltramarine Blue at ΔE00 1.24: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Ultramarine BlueΔE00 1.24 · #657abb
- Wind StarΔE00 1.356 · #6875b7
- Wild PansyΔE00 1.714 · #6373b4
- Persian JewelΔE00 2.086 · #6a7dbc
- King’s RobeΔE00 2.382 · #6274ab
- Sudden SapphireΔE00 2.41 · #6376a9
- Regal AzureΔE00 2.578 · #6a76af
- Gladiola BlueΔE00 2.584 · #6370b6
- MarvellousΔE00 2.902 · #6a7fb4
- Midnight VioletΔE00 3.051 · #6a75ad
- Indigo LightΔE00 3.1 · #5d76cb
- Chetwode BlueΔE00 3.293 · #666fb4
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.