Orbital
#6d83bb
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#6d83bb
RGB
109, 131, 187
OKLCh
61.6% 0.089 267.3°
CIELAB (D50)
54.7, 3.0, -32.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.9; on black, Lc -36.8. 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 6.5 and 6.0 and 5.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.74:1 — large text only
Black text
5.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6076ad 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
#6d83bb
protanopia
#8181bb · ΔE00 6.5
deuteranopia
#7d7dbb · ΔE00 6.0
tritanopia
#7979dd · ΔE00 5.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKimono at ΔE00 1.467: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- KimonoΔE00 1.467 · #6d86b6
- MarvellousΔE00 1.625 · #6a7fb4
- Persian JewelΔE00 2.053 · #6a7dbc
- Violets Are BlueΔE00 2.095 · #7487c6
- WatertownΔE00 2.446 · #637fbb
- Venture VioletΔE00 2.821 · #7381b3
- Marine InkΔE00 2.937 · #6384b8
- Dayflower BlueΔE00 3.077 · #758cbf
- Ultramarine BlueΔE00 3.19 · #657abb
- Larkspur BouquetΔE00 3.356 · #798bbd
- GlaucousΔE00 3.371 · #6082b6
- Twilight TwinkleΔE00 3.503 · #7b85c6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.