Windstorm
#6d98c4
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#6d98c4
RGB
109, 152, 196
OKLCh
66.6% 0.081 249.7°
CIELAB (D50)
61.0, -6.2, -27.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.0; on black, Lc -44.8. 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 13.1 and 12.3 and 9.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.03:1 — large text only
Black text
6.94:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.94:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#507aa4 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
#6d98c4
protanopia
#9494c4 · ΔE00 13.1
deuteranopia
#8d8dc5 · ΔE00 12.3
tritanopia
#8585ff · ΔE00 9.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPinafore Blue at ΔE00 1.011: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pinafore BlueΔE00 1.011 · #7198c0
- Blue TunaΔE00 1.394 · #6f95c1
- Cerulean FrostΔE00 1.579 · #6d9bc3
- Blue BeautyΔE00 1.621 · #7498bf
- Eyeshadow BlueΔE00 1.675 · #6b94c5
- Lothern BlueΔE00 1.683 · #6699cc
- LobeliaΔE00 1.708 · #7498be
- Quiet BayΔE00 1.823 · #6597cc
- Blue BalladΔE00 1.831 · #7498bd
- Blue PromiseΔE00 1.852 · #729cc2
- RazeeΔE00 2.173 · #7197cb
- KentuckyΔE00 2.186 · #6395bf
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.