Moon Veil
#8d99b1
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
#8d99b1
RGB
141, 153, 177
OKLCh
68.2% 0.038 264.3°
CIELAB (D50)
62.9, -0.5, -14.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% 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 54.9; on black, Lc -46.9. 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 5.8 and 6.0 and 8.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.87:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6c778e 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
#8d99b1
protanopia
#9898b1 · ΔE00 5.8
deuteranopia
#9696b1 · ΔE00 6.0
tritanopia
#9393cb · ΔE00 8.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlueberry Buckle at ΔE00 0.691: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blueberry BuckleΔE00 0.691 · #8c99b3
- SilverfishΔE00 2.071 · #8d95aa
- Electric SkyΔE00 2.182 · #909fba
- Periwinkle BlossomΔE00 2.275 · #8b9ab9
- Periwinkle DuskΔE00 2.309 · #8d9db3
- SkylineΔE00 2.323 · #959eb7
- Norwegian NightΔE00 2.342 · #8896aa
- Forever BlueΔE00 2.421 · #899bb8
- AnitaΔE00 2.472 · #91a0b7
- Ornamental SilverΔE00 2.69 · #929bac
- Rock BlueΔE00 2.916 · #93a2ba
- Lilac BlueΔE00 2.991 · #8293ac
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.