High Seas
#7dabd8
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#7dabd8
RGB
125, 171, 216
OKLCh
72.5% 0.082 248.5°
CIELAB (D50)
68.0, -7.1, -28.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 47.5; on black, Lc -54.5. 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 13.8 and 12.9 and 10.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.42:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.69:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.69:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4e7aa5 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
#7dabd8
protanopia
#a7a7d8 · ΔE00 13.8
deuteranopia
#9f9fd9 · ΔE00 12.9
tritanopia
#9797ff · ΔE00 10.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPool Floor at ΔE00 1.411: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pool FloorΔE00 1.411 · #7daee1
- Buoyant BlueΔE00 1.469 · #84addb
- Cotton Wool BlueΔE00 1.512 · #83abd2
- LuceaΔE00 1.536 · #7cafe1
- Jordy BlueΔE00 1.628 · #7aaae0
- Boo BlueΔE00 1.942 · #84afd5
- SwiftΔE00 1.944 · #82aadc
- Blue EyesΔE00 2.003 · #7dabd0
- Calm DayΔE00 2.042 · #7caacf
- Polar IceΔE00 2.355 · #71a6d2
- Madam ButterflyΔE00 2.386 · #7ca7cb
- ShipmateΔE00 2.513 · #7aa3cc
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.