HueComb

Queer Blue

#88ace0

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

Hex

#88ace0

RGB

136, 172, 224

OKLCh

73.7% 0.086 257.5°

CIELAB (D50)

69.2, -2.8, -30.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.8; on black, Lc -56.2. 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 10.6 and 9.9 and 8.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.33:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.02:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.02:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5678a9 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

#88ace0

protanopia

#a8a8e0 · ΔE00 10.6

deuteranopia

#a3a3e0 · ΔE00 9.9

tritanopia

#9c9cff · ΔE00 8.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBirdie Num Num at ΔE00 0.991: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.