HueComb

Blue Mana

#68c2f5

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

Hex

#68c2f5

RGB

104, 194, 245

OKLCh

77.8% 0.113 235.6°

CIELAB (D50)

74.4, -17.0, -34.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 86% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.0; on black, Lc -64.4. 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 20.6 and 19.8 and 19.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.98:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.62:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.62:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#197fae 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

#68c2f5

protanopia

#bbbbf5 · ΔE00 20.6

deuteranopia

#aeaef6 · ΔE00 19.8

tritanopia

#9e9eff · ΔE00 19.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNevermind Nirvana at ΔE00 2.344: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. 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.