Azureno
#8fa0d5
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#8fa0d5
RGB
143, 160, 213
OKLCh
71.2% 0.080 270.5°
CIELAB (D50)
66.0, 3.3, -29.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.3; on black, Lc -51.6. 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 shifts it by ΔE00 5.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.57:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.16:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.16:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6675a7 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
#8fa0d5
protanopia
#9e9ed5 · ΔE00 5.3
deuteranopia
#9b9bd5 · ΔE00 4.9
tritanopia
#9898f3 · ΔE00 4.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCeil at ΔE00 1.528: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- CeilΔE00 1.528 · #92a1cf
- Rip Van PeriwinkleΔE00 1.699 · #8fa4d2
- Dalmatian SageΔE00 1.889 · #97a3da
- PortageΔE00 2.449 · #8b98d8
- ForesightΔE00 2.694 · #94a8d3
- Velvet RobeΔE00 2.874 · #939dcc
- Mystic IrisΔE00 3.119 · #8596d2
- Purple GentianΔE00 3.132 · #8397d0
- Manifest DestinyΔE00 3.159 · #8a9bc2
- Fields of HeatherΔE00 3.327 · #98a1cf
- SerenityΔE00 3.343 · #91a8d0
- Lavender LustreΔE00 3.445 · #8c9cc1
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.