Bay View
#6a819e
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#6a819e
RGB
106, 129, 158
OKLCh
59.6% 0.052 254.4°
CIELAB (D50)
53.0, -3.1, -18.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 27% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.3; on black, Lc -34.3. 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 9.9 and 9.8 and 7.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.00:1 — large text only
Black text
5.25:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.25:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#627995 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
#6a819e
protanopia
#7f7f9e · ΔE00 9.9
deuteranopia
#7b7b9e · ΔE00 9.8
tritanopia
#7676c7 · ΔE00 7.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrisk Blue at ΔE00 0.875: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Brisk BlueΔE00 0.875 · #6d829d
- Lead CastΔE00 0.983 · #6c809c
- Searching BlueΔE00 1.398 · #6c7f9a
- Blue OarΔE00 1.599 · #647e9c
- Smoky VioletΔE00 1.966 · #647d9e
- Grey BlueberryΔE00 2.34 · #6c8096
- Indigo DreamsΔE00 2.458 · #627c98
- Infinity and BeyondΔE00 2.489 · #6e7e99
- Blue BoaterΔE00 2.544 · #6181a3
- LakevilleΔE00 2.561 · #6c849b
- Bluestone PathΔE00 2.771 · #6081a2
- MermanΔE00 2.803 · #70859b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.