Nevermind Nirvana
#7bc8f6
A blue that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#7bc8f6
RGB
123, 200, 246
OKLCh
80.0% 0.101 236.1°
CIELAB (D50)
76.9, -15.4, -30.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 86% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 34.3; on black, Lc -68.3. 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 19.4 and 18.5 and 18.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.84:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.43:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.43:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#2e7ea9 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
#7bc8f6
protanopia
#c1c1f6 · ΔE00 19.4
deuteranopia
#b6b6f7 · ΔE00 18.5
tritanopia
#a8a8ff · ΔE00 18.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBubbly Barracuda at ΔE00 1.423: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Bubbly BarracudaΔE00 1.423 · #77ccff
- Chromis Damsel BlueΔE00 1.606 · #82cafc
- Drift on the SeaΔE00 1.833 · #87cefa
- Fish PondΔE00 2.17 · #86c8ed
- Blue ManaΔE00 2.344 · #68c2f5
- Platonic BlueΔE00 2.535 · #88ccff
- SkyanΔE00 2.573 · #66ccff
- Wasurenagusa BlueΔE00 2.726 · #89c3eb
- Maya BlueΔE00 2.831 · #73c2fb
- ShimmerΔE00 2.927 · #88c7e9
- BillowΔE00 2.986 · #83c0e5
- Airy BlueΔE00 3.1 · #88ccee
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.