Misty Morning
#b2c8bd
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#b2c8bd
RGB
178, 200, 189
OKLCh
81.3% 0.028 164.2°
CIELAB (D50)
78.7, -9.3, 2.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 16% 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 32.4; on black, Lc -70.3. 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 9.3 and 9.8 and 24.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.77:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.89:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.89:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#677b71 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
#b2c8bd
protanopia
#c6c6bd · ΔE00 9.3
deuteranopia
#c2c2bd · ΔE00 9.8
tritanopia
#bebef4 · ΔE00 24.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarina Isle at ΔE00 0.911: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Marina IsleΔE00 0.911 · #b1c8bf
- Sparkling LakeΔE00 1.104 · #afc5bc
- Blue FluoriteΔE00 1.218 · #b4ccc2
- Pine WhisperΔE00 1.419 · #b3c6b9
- Crystal OasisΔE00 1.478 · #afc7bf
- Fresh ToneΔE00 1.72 · #b2c7c0
- Hearth FrostΔE00 1.781 · #b2c4bb
- Aquamarine DreamΔE00 1.954 · #b3c4ba
- Ocean DropletΔE00 2.112 · #afc3bc
- Tropical CycloneΔE00 2.145 · #b9cabd
- Surf SprayΔE00 2.241 · #b4c8c2
- Moon GlassΔE00 2.378 · #bcd1c7
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.