Double Denim
#95bce1
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
#95bce1
RGB
149, 188, 225
OKLCh
78.0% 0.068 247.3°
CIELAB (D50)
74.4, -6.9, -23.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.4; on black, Lc -64.0. 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 13.4 and 12.8 and 9.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.99:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#557a9c 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
#95bce1
protanopia
#b8b8e1 · ΔE00 13.4
deuteranopia
#b2b2e2 · ΔE00 12.8
tritanopia
#aaaaff · ΔE00 9.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVive le Bleu at ΔE00 0.59: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vive le BleuΔE00 0.59 · #97bee2
- FleckΔE00 0.912 · #97bbe1
- Salvia BlueΔE00 0.916 · #96bfe6
- Toile BlueΔE00 1.151 · #94bee1
- Blue ShuttersΔE00 1.182 · #93bde7
- Rainy WeekΔE00 1.205 · #99bbdd
- Sleeping EasyΔE00 1.343 · #98bddd
- Blues White ShoesΔE00 1.454 · #99badd
- Blue GrouseΔE00 1.47 · #9abcdc
- Blue BeyondΔE00 1.613 · #91b8d9
- Sacred BlueΔE00 1.671 · #97b9e0
- ManakinΔE00 1.798 · #94bbda
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.