HueComb

Misty Mountains

#c0d0e6

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

#c0d0e6

RGB

192, 208, 230

OKLCh

85.2% 0.035 256.3°

CIELAB (D50)

82.8, -2.2, -12.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 25.9; on black, Lc -77.2. 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 7.5 and 7.8 and 9.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.57:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.41:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.41:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#69788c 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

#c0d0e6

protanopia

#cecee6 · ΔE00 7.5

deuteranopia

#cbcbe6 · ΔE00 7.8

tritanopia

#c8c8ff · ΔE00 9.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMorning Star at ΔE00 0.916: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Morning StarΔE00 0.916 · #c3d1e5
  • Light RadarΔE00 1.305 · #c6d5ea
  • SlipstreamΔE00 1.321 · #c3d4e8
  • Rain SongΔE00 1.4 · #c5d5e9
  • Fluid BlueΔE00 1.511 · #c5d6eb
  • Murano Soft BlueΔE00 1.549 · #c5d6ee
  • Cry Baby BlueΔE00 1.607 · #c3d4e7
  • Surf’s SurpriseΔE00 1.611 · #c4d3e5
  • MaritimeΔE00 1.658 · #bdcfea
  • Atmospheric PressureΔE00 1.791 · #c2d0e1
  • Delicate Ballet BlueΔE00 1.842 · #c2d1e2
  • Lull WindΔE00 1.927 · #c3d5e8

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