Monsoon Season
#839ab0
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
#839ab0
RGB
131, 154, 176
OKLCh
67.6% 0.042 247.3°
CIELAB (D50)
62.4, -4.6, -14.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% 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 55.5; on black, Lc -46.3. 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 10.4 and 10.8 and 9.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.91:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.21:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.21:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#63798e 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
#839ab0
protanopia
#9898b0 · ΔE00 10.4
deuteranopia
#9494b0 · ΔE00 10.8
tritanopia
#8f8fdd · ΔE00 9.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPolished Metal at ΔE00 0.613: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Polished MetalΔE00 0.613 · #819ab1
- TsunamiΔE00 0.896 · #869baf
- Office BlueΔE00 1.048 · #849db4
- Private JetΔE00 1.24 · #889db2
- Nordland BlueΔE00 1.64 · #7e95ab
- Ashley BlueΔE00 1.93 · #8398a9
- Bluesy NoteΔE00 2.175 · #7c9ab5
- Dyer’s WoadΔE00 2.195 · #7b99b0
- Urban VibesΔE00 2.26 · #8899aa
- Astro BoundΔE00 2.387 · #899fb9
- Weldon BlueΔE00 2.586 · #7c98ab
- Sonata BlueΔE00 2.602 · #8a9eae
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.