Kimono
#6d86b6
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#6d86b6
RGB
109, 134, 182
OKLCh
62.0% 0.079 263.0°
CIELAB (D50)
55.4, 0.2, -28.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 38% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.2; on black, Lc -37.5. 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 7.4 and 6.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.66:1 — large text only
Black text
5.74:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.74:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5f77a6 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
#6d86b6
protanopia
#8383b6 · ΔE00 7.9
deuteranopia
#7f7fb6 · ΔE00 7.4
tritanopia
#7a7add · ΔE00 6.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrbital at ΔE00 1.467: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- OrbitalΔE00 1.467 · #6d83bb
- Marine InkΔE00 2.426 · #6384b8
- Dayflower BlueΔE00 2.439 · #758cbf
- Violets Are BlueΔE00 2.529 · #7487c6
- MarvellousΔE00 2.54 · #6a7fb4
- Debutante BallΔE00 2.721 · #6e8dbb
- Cowgirl BlueΔE00 2.953 · #6a87ab
- WatertownΔE00 3.009 · #637fbb
- GlaucousΔE00 3.046 · #6082b6
- Larkspur BouquetΔE00 3.061 · #798bbd
- Windsurf BlueΔE00 3.121 · #718bae
- HydrangeaΔE00 3.136 · #768dc6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.