Shipmate
#7aa3cc
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
#7aa3cc
RGB
122, 163, 204
OKLCh
70.1% 0.075 248.9°
CIELAB (D50)
65.2, -6.4, -25.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 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 51.5; on black, Lc -50.4. 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 13.2 and 12.4 and 9.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.65:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.94:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.94:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#537aa1 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
#7aa3cc
protanopia
#9f9fcc · ΔE00 13.2
deuteranopia
#9898cd · ΔE00 12.4
tritanopia
#9191ff · ΔE00 9.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPaula Loves Paris at ΔE00 1.342: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Paula Loves ParisΔE00 1.342 · #80a4cd
- OvercastΔE00 1.441 · #73a3d0
- Cottage BlueΔE00 1.604 · #789ec5
- SeaborneΔE00 1.639 · #7aa5c9
- Blue LecheryΔE00 1.81 · #779ecb
- Boudoir BlueΔE00 1.886 · #7ea3d2
- Madam ButterflyΔE00 1.894 · #7ca7cb
- WindfallΔE00 2 · #84a7ce
- KindredΔE00 2.056 · #71a2d4
- Polar IceΔE00 2.358 · #71a6d2
- High TideΔE00 2.402 · #85a6c8
- Alaskan IceΔE00 2.442 · #7e9ec2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.