Winter Lake
#5c97cf
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#5c97cf
RGB
92, 151, 207
OKLCh
66.0% 0.104 248.5°
CIELAB (D50)
60.2, -7.5, -35.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.8; on black, Lc -44.0. 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 15.0 and 14.2 and 12.7 — 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
#407bb1 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
#5c97cf
protanopia
#9292cf · ΔE00 15.0
deuteranopia
#8989d0 · ΔE00 14.2
tritanopia
#7e7eff · ΔE00 12.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Bay at ΔE00 1.446: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Blue BayΔE00 1.446 · #619ad6
- Quiet BayΔE00 1.505 · #6597cc
- Lothern BlueΔE00 1.556 · #6699cc
- Come Sail AwayΔE00 1.865 · #5c92c5
- Tall WavesΔE00 2.129 · #5c9bcc
- Delphinium CorsageΔE00 2.139 · #4f92cd
- Blueberry Soft BlueΔE00 2.152 · #5e96c3
- TantaliseΔE00 2.272 · #669ccb
- Canadian TuxedoΔE00 2.651 · #579aca
- KentuckyΔE00 2.705 · #6395bf
- Blue TourmalineΔE00 2.709 · #4997d0
- Blue DartΔE00 2.921 · #518fd1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.