HueComb

Icebreaker

#b7c2cc

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

#b7c2cc

RGB

183, 194, 204

OKLCh

80.9% 0.019 245.4°

CIELAB (D50)

77.8, -2.4, -6.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 only 18% 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 33.7; on black, Lc -68.9. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.6 and 6.0 and 12.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.81:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.60:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.60:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6e7881 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#b7c2cc

protanopia

#c1c1cc · ΔE00 5.6

deuteranopia

#bfbfcc · ΔE00 6.0

tritanopia

#bdbde7 · ΔE00 12.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPre School at ΔE00 0.822: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pre SchoolΔE00 0.822 · #b5c2cd
  • Yorkshire CloudΔE00 0.928 · #bac3cc
  • Winter WonderlandΔE00 1.108 · #b3bfc8
  • Blue DolphinΔE00 1.242 · #bcc5cf
  • IcyΔE00 1.328 · #bbc7d2
  • Driftwood BluesΔE00 1.41 · #b6c1c8
  • Steampunk GreyΔE00 1.419 · #b8c0c8
  • Stainless SteelΔE00 1.475 · #b4bdc7
  • HazyΔE00 1.493 · #b4c2cf
  • Pageant SongΔE00 1.682 · #b6c3d1
  • BypassΔE00 1.817 · #b6c4d2
  • OxfordΔE00 1.827 · #b1bbc5

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.