Mont Blanc
#9eb6d8
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
#9eb6d8
RGB
158, 182, 216
OKLCh
77.0% 0.056 257.1°
CIELAB (D50)
73.1, -2.8, -20.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.4; on black, Lc -61.8. 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 9.3 and 6.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.07:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.14:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.14:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#627898 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
#9eb6d8
protanopia
#b4b4d8 · ΔE00 9.5
deuteranopia
#afafd8 · ΔE00 9.3
tritanopia
#ababff · ΔE00 6.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFairies in America at ΔE00 1.112: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Fairies in AmericaΔE00 1.112 · #a2badb
- Sail Into the HorizonΔE00 1.372 · #a3bbdc
- PylonΔE00 1.403 · #9fbadf
- Clear Lake TrailΔE00 1.592 · #a3bbda
- Sky BlueΔE00 1.851 · #9fb9e2
- ValourΔE00 1.869 · #a3bcdb
- His EyesΔE00 2.05 · #9bb9e1
- BlairΔE00 2.078 · #a1bde0
- HonestΔE00 2.124 · #9bb8e2
- Baltic BreamΔE00 2.144 · #9fbbda
- Artesian PoolΔE00 2.178 · #a6bee1
- HeartsongΔE00 2.185 · #9bafd0
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.