Windjammer
#62a5df
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#62a5df
RGB
98, 165, 223
OKLCh
70.1% 0.110 246.3°
CIELAB (D50)
65.1, -9.3, -36.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.2; on black, Lc -50.7. 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 16.3 and 15.5 and 14.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.64:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.97:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.97:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#387bb3 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
#62a5df
protanopia
#9f9fdf · ΔE00 16.3
deuteranopia
#9595e0 · ΔE00 15.5
tritanopia
#8989ff · ΔE00 14.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAcapulco Dive at ΔE00 0.92: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Acapulco DiveΔE00 0.92 · #65a7dd
- Baja BlueΔE00 1.284 · #66a6d9
- Blue GouramiΔE00 1.718 · #69a2d5
- Water SpiritΔE00 1.919 · #65a5d5
- Ocean TropicΔE00 2.345 · #67a6d4
- CeruleanΔE00 2.45 · #55aaee
- Greek SeaΔE00 2.635 · #72a7e1
- Blue JeansΔE00 2.64 · #5dadec
- Polar IceΔE00 2.82 · #71a6d2
- KindredΔE00 2.869 · #71a2d4
- Picton BlueΔE00 2.916 · #5ba0d0
- Perfect DaysΔE00 2.92 · #49a0e7
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.