Wisteria Blue
#84a2d4
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#84a2d4
RGB
132, 162, 212
OKLCh
70.9% 0.081 260.5°
CIELAB (D50)
65.8, -1.3, -29.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.6; on black, Lc -51.3. 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 9.2 and 8.5 and 6.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.59:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5b77a7 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
#84a2d4
protanopia
#9f9fd4 · ΔE00 9.2
deuteranopia
#9a9ad4 · ΔE00 8.5
tritanopia
#9494ff · ΔE00 6.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Cue at ΔE00 1.345: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Blue CueΔE00 1.345 · #84a5dc
- Caribbean SkyΔE00 1.545 · #819ecb
- AnodeΔE00 1.811 · #89a4cd
- Boudoir BlueΔE00 1.981 · #7ea3d2
- Della Robbia BlueΔE00 2.467 · #7a9dcb
- Paula Loves ParisΔE00 2.604 · #80a4cd
- Placid BlueΔE00 2.686 · #88a9d2
- Polo BlueΔE00 2.854 · #8aa7cc
- Rip Van PeriwinkleΔE00 2.869 · #8fa4d2
- Black DropΔE00 2.924 · #90abd9
- Casual WaterΔE00 2.926 · #8fabd6
- WindfallΔE00 3.01 · #84a7ce
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.