Robotic Gods
#94a2b1
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#94a2b1
RGB
148, 162, 177
OKLCh
70.6% 0.027 250.1°
CIELAB (D50)
65.9, -2.7, -9.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 17% 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 50.9; on black, Lc -51.0. 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 7.0 and 7.5 and 11.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.60:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.06:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.06:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6b7886 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
#94a2b1
protanopia
#a1a1b1 · ΔE00 7.0
deuteranopia
#9e9eb1 · ΔE00 7.5
tritanopia
#9b9bd1 · ΔE00 11.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAtom Blue at ΔE00 1.923: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Atom BlueΔE00 1.923 · #8f9cac
- Acier TintΔE00 2.058 · #9ca7b5
- Cadet GreyΔE00 2.061 · #91a3b0
- Gorgeous GraphiteΔE00 2.244 · #8d9ba9
- Frilled SharkΔE00 2.269 · #939fa9
- Blue HeelerΔE00 2.669 · #939cab
- Blue FogΔE00 2.68 · #9babbb
- Lost at SeaΔE00 2.797 · #8d9ca7
- Wave GoodbyeΔE00 2.845 · #9aaab6
- Ornamental SilverΔE00 3.202 · #929bac
- Canadian LakeΔE00 3.211 · #8f9aa4
- ScribeΔE00 3.223 · #9fabb6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.