About the meaning of the color of kanji on jisho

So on jisho.org, there is a way to search kanji by radicals, which I use quite a lot, but the kanji are show with two different shades of blue.

At first I thought the lighter colored ones are “rarely used” kanji, but later I found some common kanji with that color too, does anyone know the meaning of the two colors?

2 comments
  1. wow those blue shades are so close I never even noticed before

    through some experimentation it seems that:

    light blue are 人名用漢字

    darker blue are 常用漢字

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