Juvie
#8abbd0
A cyan 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
#8abbd0
RGB
138, 187, 208
OKLCh
76.5% 0.060 226.3°
CIELAB (D50)
73.0, -12.9, -16.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.6; on black, Lc -61.7. 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 17.7 and 18.0 and 15.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.08:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4e7d91 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
#8abbd0
protanopia
#b6b6d0 · ΔE00 17.7
deuteranopia
#aeaed1 · ΔE00 18.0
tritanopia
#a5a5ff · ΔE00 15.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBonnie Blue at ΔE00 0.876: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bonnie BlueΔE00 0.876 · #8dbbd1
- Blue Bird MorningΔE00 1.225 · #86b8cb
- SpeedboatΔE00 1.247 · #90bfd4
- High Elf BlueΔE00 1.271 · #8cbed6
- BoutonniereΔE00 1.659 · #8cc1d6
- Reef BlueΔE00 1.721 · #93bdcf
- Moon JellyfishΔE00 1.819 · #8eb8ce
- Petit FourΔE00 1.885 · #7fbad1
- Sky BabeΔE00 1.941 · #88c1d8
- Mountain MainΔE00 2.087 · #8db8d0
- Pond BlueΔE00 2.145 · #8bb6c6
- Eastern SkyΔE00 2.173 · #8fc1d2
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.