HueComb

Stormy Bay

#9aafaf

A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#9aafaf

RGB

154, 175, 175

OKLCh

73.8% 0.023 196.7°

CIELAB (D50)

69.8, -7.5, -2.6

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 only 19% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.4; on black, Lc -56.7. 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 9.5 and 10.3 and 20.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.13:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.13:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#677b7b 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

#9aafaf

protanopia

#adadaf · ΔE00 9.5

deuteranopia

#a9a9af · ΔE00 10.3

tritanopia

#a5a5e0 · ΔE00 20.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSliding at ΔE00 0.862: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • SlidingΔE00 0.862 · #97aeaf
  • 5-Masted PreußenΔE00 0.976 · #9bafad
  • Grey MistΔE00 1.146 · #96acab
  • Veranda CharmΔE00 1.298 · #9eb1af
  • Quiet MomentΔE00 1.335 · #96aeb0
  • Powder MillΔE00 1.498 · #9cb3b5
  • Interesting AquaΔE00 1.561 · #9bafb2
  • Aqua-SphereΔE00 1.608 · #9cb0b3
  • Easy Breezy BlueΔE00 1.653 · #9eb1ae
  • Dutch Tile BlueΔE00 1.713 · #9aabab
  • EtherΔE00 1.852 · #98b2b4
  • Oily SteelΔE00 1.884 · #99aaaa

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