HueComb

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#55bbff

A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#55bbff

RGB

85, 187, 255

OKLCh

76.0% 0.136 241.0°

CIELAB (D50)

72.0, -14.8, -43.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 41.1; on black, Lc -61.2. 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 20.5 and 19.8 and 20.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#007dbb is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#55bbff

protanopia

#b3b3ff · ΔE00 20.5

deuteranopia

#a5a5ff · ΔE00 19.8

tritanopia

#9494ff · ΔE00 20.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGlitter Lake at ΔE00 1.448: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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