Sailing
#869cbb
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
#869cbb
RGB
134, 156, 187
OKLCh
68.7% 0.052 257.0°
CIELAB (D50)
63.5, -2.6, -18.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 31% 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 54.0; on black, Lc -47.9. 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 9.2 and 9.1 and 7.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.81:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.49:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.49:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#637896 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
#869cbb
protanopia
#9a9abb · ΔE00 9.2
deuteranopia
#9696bb · ΔE00 9.1
tritanopia
#9292e5 · ΔE00 7.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isForever Blue at ΔE00 1.342: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Forever BlueΔE00 1.342 · #899bb8
- Washed DenimΔE00 1.795 · #819dbe
- Astro BoundΔE00 1.894 · #899fb9
- Denim TraditionΔE00 1.944 · #7f97b5
- Bel Air BlueΔE00 2.168 · #819ac1
- Windy CityΔE00 2.517 · #88a3c2
- Periwinkle BlossomΔE00 2.612 · #8b9ab9
- Electric SkyΔE00 2.764 · #909fba
- Celestial HorizonΔE00 2.802 · #7c94b3
- AccoladeΔE00 2.867 · #7c94b2
- Alaskan IceΔE00 2.869 · #7e9ec2
- Periwinkle DuskΔE00 3.07 · #8d9db3
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.