Silverfish
#8d95aa
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
#8d95aa
RGB
141, 149, 170
OKLCh
67.0% 0.032 269.0°
CIELAB (D50)
61.6, 0.4, -12.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 19% 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 56.6; on black, Lc -45.1. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.99:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.01:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.01:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6f778b 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
#8d95aa
protanopia
#9494aa · ΔE00 4.1
deuteranopia
#9393aa · ΔE00 4.2
tritanopia
#9191bc · ΔE00 7.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDusty Heather at ΔE00 1.802: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dusty HeatherΔE00 1.802 · #8990a3
- Moon VeilΔE00 2.071 · #8d99b1
- Cool GreyΔE00 2.09 · #8c93ad
- Sephiroth GreyΔE00 2.42 · #8c92ac
- Blueberry BuckleΔE00 2.573 · #8c99b3
- Ornamental SilverΔE00 2.585 · #929bac
- Norwegian NightΔE00 2.855 · #8896aa
- ManateeΔE00 2.893 · #8d90a1
- TranceΔE00 2.967 · #8f97a5
- Vintage RibbonΔE00 3.1 · #9097b4
- SkylineΔE00 3.18 · #959eb7
- MemoriseΔE00 3.228 · #9197a4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.