HueComb

Polar Wind

#b4dfed

A cyan 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

#b4dfed

RGB

180, 223, 237

OKLCh

87.8% 0.049 219.6°

CIELAB (D50)

86.1, -12.2, -11.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 22 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 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 20.5; on black, Lc -82.9. 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 16.1 and 17.1 and 18.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.43:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.72:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.72:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#557d89 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

#b4dfed

protanopia

#dbdbed · ΔE00 16.1

deuteranopia

#d4d4ee · ΔE00 17.1

tritanopia

#cbcbff · ΔE00 18.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBright and Breezy at ΔE00 0.811: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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