Blue Bay
#619ad6
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#619ad6
RGB
97, 154, 214
OKLCh
67.2% 0.108 250.9°
CIELAB (D50)
61.6, -6.1, -37.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.0; on black, Lc -45.8. 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 14.3 and 13.5 and 12.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.96:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#427ab4 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
#619ad6
protanopia
#9595d6 · ΔE00 14.3
deuteranopia
#8c8cd7 · ΔE00 13.5
tritanopia
#8282ff · ΔE00 12.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWinter Lake at ΔE00 1.446: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Winter LakeΔE00 1.446 · #5c97cf
- Lothern BlueΔE00 1.497 · #6699cc
- Quiet BayΔE00 1.591 · #6597cc
- TantaliseΔE00 2.309 · #669ccb
- Blue ElectressΔE00 2.327 · #6d9fd1
- Little Boy BlueΔE00 2.51 · #6495da
- Sea LochΔE00 2.582 · #6e99d1
- Tall WavesΔE00 2.767 · #5c9bcc
- Blue GouramiΔE00 2.851 · #69a2d5
- Bashful BlueΔE00 3.055 · #6994cf
- Come Sail AwayΔE00 3.099 · #5c92c5
- WindstormΔE00 3.108 · #6d98c4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.