Galactic Gossamer
#7f8cb8
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
#7f8cb8
RGB
127, 140, 184
OKLCh
64.6% 0.068 271.7°
CIELAB (D50)
58.4, 3.0, -24.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 36% 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 60.5; on black, Lc -41.2. 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
3.31:1 — large text only
Black text
6.35:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.35:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6975a0 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
#7f8cb8
protanopia
#8b8bb8 · ΔE00 4.6
deuteranopia
#8888b8 · ΔE00 4.3
tritanopia
#8686d0 · ΔE00 4.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIolite at ΔE00 1.365: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- IoliteΔE00 1.365 · #7d89bb
- Skysail BlueΔE00 1.448 · #818db3
- Wild Blue YonderΔE00 1.475 · #7a89b8
- Opal VioletΔE00 1.554 · #7e8fbb
- LuxuryΔE00 2.157 · #818eb1
- Safflowerish SkyΔE00 2.158 · #8491c3
- Larkspur BouquetΔE00 2.213 · #798bbd
- SoothsayerΔE00 2.394 · #8092bc
- Pleated MauveΔE00 2.412 · #858bc2
- PHP PurpleΔE00 2.466 · #8892bf
- Sweet WilliamΔE00 2.519 · #8892c1
- Corsican PurpleΔE00 2.542 · #7a85af
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.