Blue Haze
#bdbace
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
#bdbace
RGB
189, 186, 206
OKLCh
79.8% 0.028 292.6°
CIELAB (D50)
76.2, 4.0, -9.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 25% 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 36.1; on black, Lc -66.4. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.90:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#777587 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
#bdbace
protanopia
#babace · ΔE00 1.5
deuteranopia
#bbbbce · ΔE00 1.5
tritanopia
#bbbbc6 · ΔE00 4.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAxis at ΔE00 1.168: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- AxisΔE00 1.168 · #bab6cb
- Winter DuskΔE00 1.699 · #b8b8cb
- BohemianismΔE00 2.026 · #b8b3c8
- Estate VioletΔE00 2.138 · #c3c1d2
- Gentleman’s SuitΔE00 2.164 · #c1becd
- CosmicΔE00 2.237 · #b8b9cb
- SilverberryΔE00 2.332 · #bebbc9
- Pale VioletΔE00 2.34 · #c6c3d6
- A Stitch in TimeΔE00 2.552 · #babccf
- Silver DaggerΔE00 2.735 · #c1c1d1
- Evening HazeΔE00 2.745 · #b7b2c2
- AmouretteΔE00 2.902 · #c8c5d7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.