HueComb

Fennel Flower

#77aaff

A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#77aaff

RGB

119, 170, 255

OKLCh

73.8% 0.135 260.2°

CIELAB (D50)

68.7, 0.8, -48.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.0; on black, Lc -56.1. 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 11.7 and 11.2 and 11.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.34:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.98:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.98:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4676c6 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#77aaff

protanopia

#a5a5ff · ΔE00 11.7

deuteranopia

#9d9dff · ΔE00 11.2

tritanopia

#9494ff · ΔE00 11.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFly Away at ΔE00 3.037: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.