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The colour lab

Close to Cornflower blue

What is this colour called?

The closest names in the swatch book, nearest first. The number is the distance in CIE Lab space: under 2 is hard to tell apart by eye.

Cornflower blue#6495ED12.5 cornflowerblue#6495ED12.5 Glaucous#6082B613.5 Middle blue purple#8B72BE13.7 Purple mountain majesty#9678B614.7 Tufts blue#3E8EDE14.7 Blue yonder#5072A715.3 Little boy blue#6CA0DC15.7 Violet-blue (Crayola)#766EC815.9 Maximum blue purple#ACACE617.3 Bleu de France#318CE717.4 Blue-gray#6699CC17.9

Harmonies

ComplementaryIts opposite on the wheel

#7986CD #CDC179

AnalogousIts neighbours

#7986CD #79B0CD #9779CD

TriadicThree evenly spaced

#7986CD #CD7986 #86CD79

Split complementaryEither side of its opposite

#7986CD #CD9779 #B0CD79

TintsLighter

#7986CD #ADB5E1 #E1E4F4 #F1F2F9

ShadesDarker

#7986CD #4C5DBD #374595 #273068

Contrast with text

White text 3.44:1large text only

Black text 6.1:1passes AA

Ratios follow the WCAG 2 formula. 4.5:1 is the usual minimum for body text.

Through colour-blind eyes

Typical vision

Protanopia

Deuteranopia

Tritanopia

No colour

A simulation. Real colour vision varies from person to person.

The weekly palette

Every Monday: seven colours you may not know, what the world is wearing this week, and one idea about colour.