Ethereal Mist
#b0b8cc
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b0b8cc
RGB
176, 184, 204
OKLCh
78.3% 0.030 268.3°
CIELAB (D50)
74.6, 0.1, -11.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 27% 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 38.4; on black, Lc -64.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.99:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.57:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.57:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6f7789 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
#b0b8cc
protanopia
#b7b7cc · ΔE00 4.0
deuteranopia
#b6b6cc · ΔE00 4.2
tritanopia
#b4b4df · ΔE00 7.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpacious Sky at ΔE00 1.093: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Spacious SkyΔE00 1.093 · #aeb5c7
- PerseveranceΔE00 1.387 · #acb3c7
- HeritageΔE00 1.457 · #b0bacc
- Arctic IceΔE00 1.464 · #b6bdd0
- Violet VisionΔE00 1.721 · #b7bdd1
- Brother BlueΔE00 1.929 · #b0b7c6
- Sweet JulietΔE00 1.962 · #b8bfd2
- Soul SisterΔE00 2.414 · #b2b5c8
- BluebeardΔE00 2.685 · #abb5c4
- Timeless LilacΔE00 2.713 · #afb2c4
- Fragrant WandΔE00 2.721 · #adb1c1
- ChivalrousΔE00 2.987 · #aeb2c0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.