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#85b3f3

A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#85b3f3

RGB

133, 179, 243

OKLCh

75.9% 0.105 256.8°

CIELAB (D50)

71.5, -3.1, -37.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.3; on black, Lc -59.9. 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 11.9 and 11.2 and 10.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4d78b4 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

#85b3f3

protanopia

#afaff3 · ΔE00 11.9

deuteranopia

#a7a7f4 · ΔE00 11.2

tritanopia

#9e9eff · ΔE00 10.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCarolina Blue at ΔE00 1.65: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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