Ether
#98b2b4
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
#98b2b4
RGB
152, 178, 180
OKLCh
74.5% 0.029 202.2°
CIELAB (D50)
70.6, -8.9, -4.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit 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 44.2; on black, Lc -57.9. 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 11.2 and 12.2 and 20.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#637b7d 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
#98b2b4
protanopia
#afafb4 · ΔE00 11.2
deuteranopia
#ababb5 · ΔE00 12.2
tritanopia
#a6a6ee · ΔE00 20.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPowder Mill at ΔE00 1.09: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Powder MillΔE00 1.09 · #9cb3b5
- Quiet MomentΔE00 1.213 · #96aeb0
- SlidingΔE00 1.401 · #97aeaf
- Smooth-Hound SharkΔE00 1.484 · #97b2b1
- Beach CottageΔE00 1.495 · #94adb0
- Windswept CloudsΔE00 1.76 · #9eb8bb
- Stormy BayΔE00 1.852 · #9aafaf
- Blue by YouΔE00 1.992 · #a0b7ba
- Aqua-SphereΔE00 2.193 · #9cb0b3
- Interesting AquaΔE00 2.234 · #9bafb2
- Grey MistΔE00 2.339 · #96acab
- 5-Masted PreußenΔE00 2.598 · #9bafad
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.