Supremely Cool
#afbed4
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
#afbed4
RGB
175, 190, 212
OKLCh
79.7% 0.035 257.9°
CIELAB (D50)
76.3, -1.9, -12.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% 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 35.8; on black, Lc -66.7. 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 7.1 and 7.4 and 9.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.14:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.14:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6a788c 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
#afbed4
protanopia
#bcbcd4 · ΔE00 7.1
deuteranopia
#babad4 · ΔE00 7.4
tritanopia
#b7b7f6 · ΔE00 9.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMovie Magic at ΔE00 0.898: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Movie MagicΔE00 0.898 · #b2bfd5
- Sweet BlueΔE00 0.996 · #aebed2
- Sailor BoyΔE00 1.026 · #aebbd0
- Snow FlurriesΔE00 1.279 · #b3c0d3
- Blue ThistleΔE00 1.564 · #adc0d6
- Eternal EleganceΔE00 1.852 · #b3c3dd
- Virginia BlueΔE00 1.859 · #b7c3d7
- SpindleΔE00 1.928 · #b3c4d8
- Babbling CreekΔE00 1.939 · #a7bad3
- Periwinkle BudΔE00 2.037 · #b4c4de
- AlleyΔE00 2.053 · #b8c4d9
- Canopy BedΔE00 2.066 · #aabfd8
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.