Acapulco Dive
#65a7dd
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#65a7dd
RGB
101, 167, 221
OKLCh
70.6% 0.104 244.7°
CIELAB (D50)
65.7, -10.1, -34.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.4; on black, Lc -51.6. 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 16.5 and 15.7 and 14.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.12:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.12:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#3a7caf 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
#65a7dd
protanopia
#a1a1dd · ΔE00 16.5
deuteranopia
#9797de · ΔE00 15.7
tritanopia
#8b8bff · ΔE00 14.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBaja Blue at ΔE00 0.622: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Baja BlueΔE00 0.622 · #66a6d9
- WindjammerΔE00 0.92 · #62a5df
- Water SpiritΔE00 1.353 · #65a5d5
- Ocean TropicΔE00 1.644 · #67a6d4
- Blue GouramiΔE00 1.845 · #69a2d5
- Polar IceΔE00 2.269 · #71a6d2
- Blue JeansΔE00 2.409 · #5dadec
- CeruleanΔE00 2.614 · #55aaee
- Greek SeaΔE00 2.735 · #72a7e1
- Chronus BlueΔE00 2.739 · #72a8d1
- Picton BlueΔE00 2.841 · #5ba0d0
- KindredΔE00 2.944 · #71a2d4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.