Ariel
#aed7ea
A cyan 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
#aed7ea
RGB
174, 215, 234
OKLCh
85.6% 0.051 227.8°
CIELAB (D50)
83.5, -10.8, -14.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.6; on black, Lc -78.5. 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 15.7 and 16.3 and 16.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.53:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.71:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.71:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#567c8d 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
#aed7ea
protanopia
#d3d3ea · ΔE00 15.7
deuteranopia
#cccceb · ΔE00 16.3
tritanopia
#c4c4ff · ΔE00 16.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Feather at ΔE00 0.62: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blue FeatherΔE00 0.62 · #aed9ec
- MonacoΔE00 0.818 · #abd4e6
- Something BlueΔE00 1.085 · #b0d6e6
- New PrinceΔE00 1.15 · #b1d9e9
- Soap BubbleΔE00 1.16 · #b2dcef
- Seashore DreamsΔE00 1.363 · #b5dcef
- Blue RefrainΔE00 1.437 · #b0d8e7
- Light Bobby BlueΔE00 1.441 · #add2e3
- Laissez-FaireΔE00 1.488 · #a6d3e6
- LongitudeΔE00 1.498 · #add5e4
- Whimsy BlueΔE00 1.591 · #b0dced
- Minified BlueΔE00 1.702 · #b3dbea
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.