HueComb

Electric Eel

#88bbee

A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#88bbee

RGB

136, 187, 238

OKLCh

77.5% 0.091 249.1°

CIELAB (D50)

73.7, -7.4, -31.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 39.2; on black, Lc -63.2. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 14.2 and 13.3 and 12.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.02:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.39:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.39:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4a7aaa is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#88bbee

protanopia

#b6b6ee · ΔE00 14.2

deuteranopia

#aeaeef · ΔE00 13.3

tritanopia

#a4a4ff · ΔE00 12.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Shutters at ΔE00 2.242: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.