Far Horizons
#7fa2bf
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
#7fa2bf
RGB
127, 162, 191
OKLCh
69.7% 0.058 243.7°
CIELAB (D50)
64.8, -7.1, -19.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% 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 52.1; on black, Lc -49.8. 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 13.6 and 13.4 and 9.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.68:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#597a96 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
#7fa2bf
protanopia
#9f9fbf · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#9999c0 · ΔE00 13.4
tritanopia
#9292fc · ΔE00 9.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOld Faithful at ΔE00 0.742: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Old FaithfulΔE00 0.742 · #82a2be
- Hawaiian SkyΔE00 1.013 · #83a2bd
- AfloatΔE00 1.751 · #78a3c2
- Ocean SurfΔE00 1.936 · #79a2bd
- Key West ZenithΔE00 2.101 · #759fc1
- StormfangΔE00 2.173 · #80a7c1
- Blue MountainΔE00 2.199 · #759dbe
- SeaborneΔE00 2.242 · #7aa5c9
- Blue NileΔE00 2.318 · #779fb9
- High TideΔE00 2.342 · #85a6c8
- Walden PondΔE00 2.345 · #789bb6
- Madam ButterflyΔE00 2.483 · #7ca7cb
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.