HueComb

Fly a Kite

#c8daf5

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

#c8daf5

RGB

200, 218, 245

OKLCh

88.3% 0.042 258.4°

CIELAB (D50)

86.3, -2.1, -15.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 20.2; on black, Lc -83.2. 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 7.9 and 8.1 and 8.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.42:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.80:1. 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.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#c8daf5

protanopia

#d8d8f5 · ΔE00 7.9

deuteranopia

#d5d5f5 · ΔE00 8.1

tritanopia

#d1d1ff · ΔE00 8.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMurano Soft Blue at ΔE00 1.316: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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