Adrift on the Nile
#93b8e3
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
#93b8e3
RGB
147, 184, 227
OKLCh
77.1% 0.074 252.5°
CIELAB (D50)
73.2, -5.1, -25.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.1; on black, Lc -62.2. 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 12.0 and 11.2 and 8.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.06:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.21:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.21:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5779a1 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
#93b8e3
protanopia
#b4b4e3 · ΔE00 12.0
deuteranopia
#aeaee4 · ΔE00 11.2
tritanopia
#a7a7ff · ΔE00 8.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSacred Blue at ΔE00 1.033: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sacred BlueΔE00 1.033 · #97b9e0
- FleckΔE00 1.366 · #97bbe1
- Echo Isles WaterΔE00 1.568 · #95b5db
- Gallery BlueΔE00 1.597 · #9bbce4
- Blue ShuttersΔE00 1.73 · #93bde7
- Aegean MistΔE00 1.862 · #9cbbe2
- His EyesΔE00 1.869 · #9bb9e1
- Double DenimΔE00 1.953 · #95bce1
- Blues White ShoesΔE00 1.957 · #99badd
- HonestΔE00 2.148 · #9bb8e2
- Rainy WeekΔE00 2.26 · #99bbdd
- Salvia BlueΔE00 2.308 · #96bfe6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.