Metal Gear
#a2c3db
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#a2c3db
RGB
162, 195, 219
OKLCh
80.1% 0.049 239.8°
CIELAB (D50)
77.0, -7.4, -15.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 34.7; on black, Lc -67.8. 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 13.4 and 13.7 and 11.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.85:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.37:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.37:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5c7b91 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
#a2c3db
protanopia
#c0c0db · ΔE00 13.4
deuteranopia
#babadc · ΔE00 13.7
tritanopia
#b4b4ff · ΔE00 11.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMr Frosty at ΔE00 0.984: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mr FrostyΔE00 0.984 · #a3c5db
- Sea CliffΔE00 1.019 · #a5c7df
- Utterly BlueΔE00 1.258 · #a8c6de
- Blue BowsΔE00 1.331 · #a4c3d7
- Frozen BlueΔE00 1.465 · #a5c5d9
- BluetteΔE00 1.515 · #9ebed8
- TemplateΔE00 1.61 · #a6c9e3
- Charismatic SkyΔE00 1.652 · #9ac1dc
- Blue Crab EscapeΔE00 1.67 · #9ebdd6
- MångataΔE00 1.84 · #9dbcd4
- January FrostΔE00 1.849 · #99c1dc
- Blue MagpieΔE00 2.104 · #9ac0de
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.