HueComb

Kitten’s Eye

#8aadf7

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

Hex

#8aadf7

RGB

138, 173, 247

OKLCh

75.1% 0.114 264.4°

CIELAB (D50)

70.4, 2.2, -41.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 90% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.9; on black, Lc -58.2. 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 8.9 and 8.4 and 7.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.23:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.40:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.40:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5575bb 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

#8aadf7

protanopia

#aaaaf7 · ΔE00 8.9

deuteranopia

#a4a4f7 · ΔE00 8.4

tritanopia

#9d9dff · ΔE00 7.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQueer Blue at ΔE00 2.618: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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