Wondrous Wisteria
#a3b1f2
A blue that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a3b1f2
RGB
163, 177, 242
OKLCh
77.3% 0.095 274.6°
CIELAB (D50)
72.9, 6.3, -34.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.5; 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
2.07:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6773b0 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
#a3b1f2
protanopia
#afaff2 · ΔE00 4.0
deuteranopia
#adadf2 · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#aaaaff · ΔE00 3.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShy Moment at ΔE00 3.162: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Shy MomentΔE00 3.162 · #aaaaff
- Myrtle FlowerΔE00 3.207 · #9eb3de
- WidowmakerΔE00 3.419 · #99aaff
- PeranoΔE00 3.565 · #acb9e8
- Aster Flower BlueΔE00 3.591 · #9bacd8
- Blue Skies TodayΔE00 4.024 · #95afdc
- Teclis BlueΔE00 4.042 · #a3bae3
- Sky BlueΔE00 4.373 · #9fb9e2
- Victory LakeΔE00 4.408 · #92abd8
- Greyish LavenderΔE00 4.469 · #b8b8ff
- Cold LipsΔE00 4.489 · #9ba0ef
- Dalmatian SageΔE00 4.514 · #97a3da
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.