HueComb

Windfall

#84a7ce

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

#84a7ce

RGB

132, 167, 206

OKLCh

71.7% 0.069 251.5°

CIELAB (D50)

67.0, -5.1, -24.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 49.0; on black, Lc -52.9. 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 12.0 and 11.3 and 8.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.50:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.40:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.40:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#58799e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#84a7ce

protanopia

#a4a4ce · ΔE00 12.0

deuteranopia

#9e9ecf · ΔE00 11.3

tritanopia

#9797ff · ΔE00 8.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPaula Loves Paris at ΔE00 1.023: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.