Breeze
#aec9ea
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#aec9ea
RGB
174, 201, 234
OKLCh
82.7% 0.055 253.6°
CIELAB (D50)
79.8, -3.9, -19.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.4; on black, Lc -72.4. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.6 and 10.4 and 8.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.70:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.34:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.34:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#607997 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
#aec9ea
protanopia
#c6c6ea · ΔE00 10.6
deuteranopia
#c2c2ea · ΔE00 10.4
tritanopia
#bcbcff · ΔE00 8.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTropical Blue at ΔE00 0.289: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tropical BlueΔE00 0.289 · #aec9eb
- Promise KeepingΔE00 1.029 · #afc7e8
- Water WashΔE00 1.062 · #acc7e5
- Baby BuntingΔE00 1.353 · #abcaea
- Island LightΔE00 1.963 · #a7c9eb
- Blossom BlueΔE00 1.987 · #aaccee
- Alphabet BlueΔE00 2.056 · #abcdef
- Andromeda BlueΔE00 2.15 · #abcdee
- Simply SparklingΔE00 2.253 · #b0c5e0
- Newman’s EyeΔE00 2.321 · #b2c7e1
- FeatherbedΔE00 2.434 · #afcbe5
- Summer StormΔE00 2.435 · #b0c5df
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.