Over the Moon
#abb8d5
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
#abb8d5
RGB
171, 184, 213
OKLCh
78.2% 0.044 266.2°
CIELAB (D50)
74.5, -0.1, -16.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.5; on black, Lc -63.9. 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 5.9 and 7.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.99:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6b7792 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
#abb8d5
protanopia
#b7b7d5 · ΔE00 5.8
deuteranopia
#b4b4d5 · ΔE00 5.9
tritanopia
#b2b2f1 · ΔE00 7.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isConclave at ΔE00 0.486: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ConclaveΔE00 0.486 · #abb9d7
- Pigeon PostΔE00 1.403 · #afbdd9
- Halogen BlueΔE00 1.414 · #b0bad5
- Lilac SachetΔE00 1.677 · #abb6d7
- WispΔE00 2.038 · #a9badd
- Kentucky BlueΔE00 2.125 · #a5b3cc
- Awesome VioletΔE00 2.386 · #a7b2d4
- Frosted IrisΔE00 2.553 · #b1b9d9
- MinuetΔE00 2.572 · #a5b6cf
- Lovely LilacΔE00 2.577 · #a7b0cc
- Lilac FlareΔE00 2.776 · #b2badb
- Ballroom BlueΔE00 2.837 · #a6b3c9
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.