Celestial Horizon
#7c94b3
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#7c94b3
RGB
124, 148, 179
OKLCh
65.9% 0.054 255.0°
CIELAB (D50)
60.3, -3.2, -19.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 29% 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 58.1; on black, Lc -43.6. 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 7.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.11:1 — large text only
Black text
6.74:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.74:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#617996 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
#7c94b3
protanopia
#9292b3 · ΔE00 9.9
deuteranopia
#8e8eb3 · ΔE00 9.8
tritanopia
#8989df · ΔE00 7.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAccolade at ΔE00 0.32: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AccoladeΔE00 0.32 · #7c94b2
- Jay Wing FeathersΔE00 0.913 · #7994b5
- Denim TraditionΔE00 1.028 · #7f97b5
- WinkΔE00 1.641 · #7792af
- IdentityΔE00 1.718 · #7890ac
- Ocean CityΔE00 1.887 · #7896ba
- Ocean RidgeΔE00 2.202 · #7594b3
- AllureΔE00 2.391 · #7291b4
- Cotton CardiganΔE00 2.483 · #7596b8
- Lilac BlueΔE00 2.497 · #8293ac
- StratusΔE00 2.7 · #8193aa
- Bluebird’s BellyΔE00 2.712 · #7395b8
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.