King Neptune
#7794c0
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
#7794c0
RGB
119, 148, 192
OKLCh
66.1% 0.074 258.6°
CIELAB (D50)
60.4, -2.1, -26.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.9; on black, Lc -43.9. 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 9.5 and 8.9 and 6.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.10:1 — large text only
Black text
6.78:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.78:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5c78a2 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
#7794c0
protanopia
#9191c0 · ΔE00 9.5
deuteranopia
#8c8cc0 · ΔE00 8.9
tritanopia
#8787ef · ΔE00 6.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDenver River at ΔE00 0.395: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Denver RiverΔE00 0.395 · #7795c1
- Himalaya SkyΔE00 0.598 · #7695c2
- PannikinΔE00 1.807 · #7895cc
- Blue ShockΔE00 1.827 · #7593cb
- Cool TouchΔE00 1.882 · #7295c9
- Ocean CityΔE00 1.99 · #7896ba
- Steel Blue EyesΔE00 2.102 · #7d94c6
- Purple HyacinthΔE00 2.171 · #6e8fc0
- Organza VioletΔE00 2.27 · #7391cc
- Blue TunaΔE00 2.372 · #6f95c1
- Bel Air BlueΔE00 2.496 · #819ac1
- Debutante BallΔE00 2.513 · #6e8dbb
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.