HueComb

Infinity and Beyond

#6e7e99

A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#6e7e99

RGB

110, 126, 153

OKLCh

59.0% 0.046 260.8°

CIELAB (D50)

52.2, -1.2, -16.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 20% 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 68.2; on black, Lc -33.4. 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 7.4 and 7.5 and 7.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.11:1 — large text only

Black text

5.11:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.11:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#687892 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

#6e7e99

protanopia

#7c7c99 · ΔE00 7.4

deuteranopia

#7a7a99 · ΔE00 7.5

tritanopia

#7676b8 · ΔE00 7.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCountry Blue at ΔE00 1.135: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.