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#afcbe5
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
#afcbe5
RGB
175, 203, 229
OKLCh
83.0% 0.048 246.4°
CIELAB (D50)
80.2, -5.5, -16.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.7; on black, Lc -73.1. 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 11.7 and 11.9 and 10.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.68:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#607a91 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
#afcbe5
protanopia
#c8c8e5 · ΔE00 11.7
deuteranopia
#c3c3e5 · ΔE00 11.9
tritanopia
#bebeff · ΔE00 10.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Veil at ΔE00 0.307: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blue VeilΔE00 0.307 · #aecbe5
- MoralityΔE00 1.097 · #b4cde5
- Melt IceΔE00 1.469 · #b4cbe3
- Wind BlueΔE00 1.495 · #b1c9df
- ChartedΔE00 1.666 · #b2cce1
- Water WashΔE00 1.754 · #acc7e5
- Utterly BlueΔE00 1.765 · #a8c6de
- Baby BuntingΔE00 1.795 · #abcaea
- Frosty Snow CapΔE00 1.885 · #accde5
- Blue PrismΔE00 1.973 · #abc4db
- Cumulus CloudΔE00 2.069 · #b0c6df
- Ridge LightΔE00 2.08 · #b2c8dd
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.