Wandering River
#73a4c6
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
#73a4c6
RGB
115, 164, 198
OKLCh
69.7% 0.072 239.4°
CIELAB (D50)
64.8, -10.2, -23.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.9; on black, Lc -50.0. 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 16.2 and 15.4 and 12.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.67:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4c7c9c 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
#73a4c6
protanopia
#9f9fc6 · ΔE00 16.2
deuteranopia
#9898c7 · ΔE00 15.4
tritanopia
#8f8fff · ΔE00 12.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAfloat at ΔE00 1.183: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- AfloatΔE00 1.183 · #78a3c2
- Air Superiority BlueΔE00 1.254 · #72a0c1
- Mirror LakeΔE00 1.579 · #7aa8cb
- SeaborneΔE00 1.742 · #7aa5c9
- Key West ZenithΔE00 1.952 · #759fc1
- Serene SeaΔE00 1.99 · #78a7c3
- Madam ButterflyΔE00 2.031 · #7ca7cb
- Chronus BlueΔE00 2.063 · #72a8d1
- FateΔE00 2.066 · #6ba0bf
- Gulf Stream BlueΔE00 2.139 · #689fc1
- Ocean SurfΔE00 2.151 · #79a2bd
- Calm DayΔE00 2.362 · #7caacf
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.