Stardust Evening
#b8bfdc
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
#b8bfdc
RGB
184, 191, 220
OKLCh
80.8% 0.042 274.7°
CIELAB (D50)
77.5, 1.9, -15.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 34.0; on black, Lc -68.5. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.82:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.52:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.52:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#707690 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
#b8bfdc
protanopia
#bebedc · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#bdbddc · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#bcbcec · ΔE00 5.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRhapsody Lilac at ΔE00 0.902: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rhapsody LilacΔE00 0.902 · #babfdc
- GenevieveΔE00 1.358 · #bcc4e0
- Hazy SkyΔE00 1.39 · #b7bdd6
- Blue HydrangeaΔE00 1.505 · #bbc3dd
- Lilac FlareΔE00 1.802 · #b2badb
- Frosted IrisΔE00 1.861 · #b1b9d9
- California LilacΔE00 1.899 · #bbc5e2
- WishΔE00 1.991 · #b6bcdf
- Lavender SachetΔE00 2.131 · #bec2da
- Halogen BlueΔE00 2.193 · #b0bad5
- Canterbury BellsΔE00 2.209 · #b9c3e6
- Hundred WatersΔE00 2.355 · #b2b7d1
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.