Sailor Boy
#aebbd0
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
#aebbd0
RGB
174, 187, 208
OKLCh
78.9% 0.033 260.0°
CIELAB (D50)
75.4, -1.4, -12.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 31% 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 37.3; on black, Lc -65.2. 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 6.3 and 6.6 and 9.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.94:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6c788b 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
#aebbd0
protanopia
#babad0 · ΔE00 6.3
deuteranopia
#b7b7d0 · ΔE00 6.6
tritanopia
#b5b5ee · ΔE00 9.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSupremely Cool at ΔE00 1.026: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Supremely CoolΔE00 1.026 · #afbed4
- Movie MagicΔE00 1.128 · #b2bfd5
- HeritageΔE00 1.394 · #b0bacc
- Snow FlurriesΔE00 1.513 · #b3c0d3
- Sweet BlueΔE00 1.541 · #aebed2
- UniformΔE00 2.105 · #a7b7ca
- Ethereal MistΔE00 2.17 · #b0b8cc
- Virginia BlueΔE00 2.179 · #b7c3d7
- Ballroom BlueΔE00 2.197 · #a6b3c9
- Cold Winter’s MornΔE00 2.273 · #b4bcd1
- MinuetΔE00 2.288 · #a5b6cf
- Babbling CreekΔE00 2.294 · #a7bad3
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.