Fish Pond
#86c8ed
A blue that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#86c8ed
RGB
134, 200, 237
OKLCh
80.2% 0.085 233.9°
CIELAB (D50)
77.2, -14.5, -25.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 34.1; on black, Lc -68.5. 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 18.9 and 17.9 and 16.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.83:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#3c7ea0 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
#86c8ed
protanopia
#c2c2ed · ΔE00 18.9
deuteranopia
#b8b8ee · ΔE00 17.9
tritanopia
#acacff · ΔE00 16.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShimmer at ΔE00 0.796: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ShimmerΔE00 0.796 · #88c7e9
- Airy BlueΔE00 1.38 · #88ccee
- Deluxe DaysΔE00 1.593 · #8bc7e6
- Pacific OceanΔE00 1.985 · #92cbf1
- BillowΔE00 2.081 · #83c0e5
- Below ZeroΔE00 2.097 · #87cded
- Wasurenagusa BlueΔE00 2.103 · #89c3eb
- Horizon HazeΔE00 2.135 · #80c1e2
- Nevermind NirvanaΔE00 2.17 · #7bc8f6
- Drift on the SeaΔE00 2.184 · #87cefa
- Pool TilesΔE00 2.2 · #89cff0
- Club CruiseΔE00 2.253 · #8bc3e1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.