Maritime
#bdcfea
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#bdcfea
RGB
189, 207, 234
OKLCh
85.0% 0.043 258.4°
CIELAB (D50)
82.4, -2.1, -15.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.4; on black, Lc -76.6. 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 8.0 and 8.2 and 8.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#687890 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
#bdcfea
protanopia
#cdcdea · ΔE00 8.0
deuteranopia
#cacaea · ΔE00 8.2
tritanopia
#c6c6ff · ΔE00 8.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeriwinkle Dream at ΔE00 1.195: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Periwinkle DreamΔE00 1.195 · #b8cbe5
- Frost FairyΔE00 1.476 · #bbcfef
- Light Blue GreyΔE00 1.643 · #b7c9e2
- Misty MountainsΔE00 1.658 · #c0d0e6
- RadarΔE00 1.748 · #b6c8e4
- Mr. GlassΔE00 1.802 · #c0d5ef
- Murano Soft BlueΔE00 1.948 · #c5d6ee
- Beautiful DreamΔE00 2.006 · #b6c7e3
- PennaΔE00 2.009 · #b9c8e0
- Retina Soft BlueΔE00 2.045 · #b6c7e0
- CuddleΔE00 2.331 · #bccae8
- Mystic RiverΔE00 2.362 · #b7cae0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.