High Tide
#85a6c8
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
#85a6c8
RGB
133, 166, 200
OKLCh
71.3% 0.062 249.5°
CIELAB (D50)
66.6, -5.5, -21.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 49.6; on black, Lc -52.3. 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 12.3 and 11.9 and 8.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.53:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5a7a9a 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
#85a6c8
protanopia
#a3a3c8 · ΔE00 12.3
deuteranopia
#9d9dc9 · ΔE00 11.9
tritanopia
#9797ff · ΔE00 8.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWindfall at ΔE00 1.26: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- WindfallΔE00 1.26 · #84a7ce
- Dresden DollΔE00 1.644 · #8ca8c6
- Windy CityΔE00 1.72 · #88a3c2
- Polo BlueΔE00 1.751 · #8aa7cc
- Paula Loves ParisΔE00 1.792 · #80a4cd
- Northern SkyΔE00 1.95 · #8daccc
- Mini BayΔE00 2.044 · #8aadcf
- Placid BlueΔE00 2.075 · #88a9d2
- Cotton Wool BlueΔE00 2.122 · #83abd2
- Ocean BubbleΔE00 2.128 · #8cadcd
- Bachelor BlueΔE00 2.172 · #8faaca
- Old FaithfulΔE00 2.197 · #82a2be
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.