Easter Egg
#8e97c7
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
#8e97c7
RGB
142, 151, 199
OKLCh
68.7% 0.071 276.1°
CIELAB (D50)
63.1, 5.0, -26.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.4; on black, Lc -47.4. 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.
- 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
2.84:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6c74a2 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
#8e97c7
protanopia
#9696c7 · ΔE00 3.0
deuteranopia
#9494c7 · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#9393d8 · ΔE00 3.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFast Velvet at ΔE00 1.074: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Fast VelvetΔE00 1.074 · #8b94c7
- Corfu SkyΔE00 1.4 · #8993c3
- Pale IrisΔE00 1.611 · #8895c5
- Hair RibbonΔE00 1.636 · #939cc9
- Sweet WilliamΔE00 1.741 · #8892c1
- Velvet RobeΔE00 1.826 · #939dcc
- PHP PurpleΔE00 1.851 · #8892bf
- Safflowerish SkyΔE00 2.64 · #8491c3
- Blue HeronΔE00 2.703 · #939ec5
- Bailey BellsΔE00 2.997 · #8a8ec9
- Blue HyacinthΔE00 3.05 · #8394c5
- Bluebell FrostΔE00 3.081 · #9999cc
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.