HueComb

Stormy

#b0bcc3

A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#b0bcc3

RGB

176, 188, 195

OKLCh

78.8% 0.017 233.1°

CIELAB (D50)

75.5, -3.3, -5.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 16 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 only 13% 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 37.2; on black, Lc -65.2. 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 6.0 and 6.5 and 14.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.94:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.83:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.83:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6d787f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#b0bcc3

protanopia

#bbbbc3 · ΔE00 6.0

deuteranopia

#b9b9c3 · ΔE00 6.5

tritanopia

#b6b6e1 · ΔE00 14.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSeersucker at ΔE00 0.551: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • SeersuckerΔE00 0.551 · #afbbc1
  • Soothing BreezeΔE00 0.79 · #b3bec4
  • Blue HeatherΔE00 0.794 · #aebbc1
  • Ocean DriveΔE00 0.925 · #b0bec5
  • Hazy SkiesΔE00 1.099 · #adbbc4
  • LakesideΔE00 1.233 · #adb8c0
  • Winter WonderlandΔE00 1.235 · #b3bfc8
  • Glen FallsΔE00 1.4 · #acb8c1
  • Driftwood BluesΔE00 1.437 · #b6c1c8
  • Granite FogΔE00 1.55 · #b1bac2
  • AdirondackΔE00 1.631 · #b0b9c1
  • OxfordΔE00 1.841 · #b1bbc5

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.