Arctic Ice
#b6bdd0
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
#b6bdd0
RGB
182, 189, 208
OKLCh
79.9% 0.028 269.6°
CIELAB (D50)
76.5, 0.3, -10.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 28% 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 35.6; on black, Lc -66.9. 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 7.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.88:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#707788 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
#b6bdd0
protanopia
#bcbcd0 · ΔE00 3.5
deuteranopia
#bbbbd0 · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#babae1 · ΔE00 7.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweet Juliet at ΔE00 0.522: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sweet JulietΔE00 0.522 · #b8bfd2
- Violet VisionΔE00 0.7 · #b7bdd1
- Ethereal MistΔE00 1.464 · #b0b8cc
- HeritageΔE00 1.839 · #b0bacc
- Spacious SkyΔE00 2.185 · #aeb5c7
- Brother BlueΔE00 2.301 · #b0b7c6
- Blue BayouΔE00 2.38 · #bec4d3
- CandelaΔE00 2.435 · #bac4d5
- A Stitch in TimeΔE00 2.456 · #babccf
- Mount NirvanaΔE00 2.481 · #bac0cd
- MistralΔE00 2.514 · #b8bfcc
- Himalayan PoppyΔE00 2.648 · #bec6d6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.