Sky High
#a7c2eb
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
#a7c2eb
RGB
167, 194, 235
OKLCh
80.8% 0.065 258.6°
CIELAB (D50)
77.5, -2.5, -23.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.9; on black, Lc -68.7. 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 9.0 and 7.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.82:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5f789e 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
#a7c2eb
protanopia
#bfbfeb · ΔE00 9.5
deuteranopia
#bbbbeb · ΔE00 9.0
tritanopia
#b5b5ff · ΔE00 7.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArtesian Pool at ΔE00 1.778: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Artesian PoolΔE00 1.778 · #a6bee1
- Blue LipsΔE00 2.076 · #a6bce2
- BlairΔE00 2.155 · #a1bde0
- Teclis BlueΔE00 2.276 · #a3bae3
- Sky BlueΔE00 2.343 · #9fb9e2
- Promise KeepingΔE00 2.358 · #afc7e8
- PylonΔE00 2.358 · #9fbadf
- Tropical BlueΔE00 2.446 · #aec9eb
- PromiseΔE00 2.464 · #acc0e2
- Aegean MistΔE00 2.481 · #9cbbe2
- Gallery BlueΔE00 2.604 · #9bbce4
- Sail Into the HorizonΔE00 2.647 · #a3bbdc
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.