HueComb

Cold Lips

#9ba0ef

A violet that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#9ba0ef

RGB

155, 160, 239

OKLCh

73.3% 0.114 280.4°

CIELAB (D50)

67.8, 12.2, -40.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 47.6; on black, Lc -54.4. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

2.42:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.67:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.67:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6d70bb is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#9ba0ef

protanopia

#9f9fef · ΔE00 1.3

deuteranopia

#9f9fef · ΔE00 1.2

tritanopia

#9e9ef8 · ΔE00 1.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCobalite at ΔE00 2.969: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.