Orchid
#7a81ff
A blue that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#7a81ff
RGB
122, 129, 255
OKLCh
65.9% 0.184 277.7°
CIELAB (D50)
58.2, 23.8, -64.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.8; on black, Lc -41.9. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
3.28:1 — large text only
Black text
6.41:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.41:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6568e4 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
#7a81ff
protanopia
#8080ff · ΔE00 1.4
deuteranopia
#7f7fff · ΔE00 1.4
tritanopia
#7e7eff · ΔE00 1.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Party Parrot at ΔE00 1.398: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Blue Party ParrotΔE00 1.398 · #8080ff
- Stargate ShimmerΔE00 2.979 · #7777ff
- Byzantine Night BlueΔE00 3.542 · #6a79f7
- Hera BlueΔE00 3.891 · #7777ee
- Lavender Blue ShadowΔE00 3.9 · #8b88f8
- PeriwinkleΔE00 4.325 · #8e82fe
- Pan PurpleΔE00 4.45 · #657aef
- TanzineΔE00 4.688 · #7983d7
- Punch Out GloveΔE00 4.823 · #6888fc
- BainganīΔE00 5.083 · #8273fd
- Deep DenimΔE00 5.152 · #6688ff
- Soft BlueΔE00 5.832 · #6488ea
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.