HueComb

Stonewash

#74819a

A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#74819a

RGB

116, 129, 154

OKLCh

60.2% 0.041 263.5°

CIELAB (D50)

53.6, -0.6, -15.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 19% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.7; on black, Lc -35.0. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.3 and 6.4 and 7.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.93:1 — large text only

Black text

5.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6a7790 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#74819a

protanopia

#80809a · ΔE00 6.3

deuteranopia

#7d7d9a · ΔE00 6.4

tritanopia

#7b7bb4 · ΔE00 7.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCountry Blue at ΔE00 1.258: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.