Celestial
#007894
A cyan that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#007894
RGB
0, 120, 148
OKLCh
53.1% 0.098 221.6°
CIELAB (D50)
46.0, -21.3, -23.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.6; on black, Lc -27.1. 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 22.7 and 22.2 and 22.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.11:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#007894
protanopia
#727294 · ΔE00 22.7
deuteranopia
#666695 · ΔE00 22.2
tritanopia
#5757ef · ΔE00 22.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHavasu at ΔE00 0.8: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- HavasuΔE00 0.8 · #007993
- Bayou SerenadeΔE00 1.111 · #017992
- CleopatraΔE00 1.112 · #007590
- Blue LuxuryΔE00 1.314 · #007593
- Ocean MirageΔE00 1.456 · #00748f
- Enamel BlueΔE00 1.459 · #00758e
- Amulet GemΔE00 1.549 · #01748e
- Rare TurquoiseΔE00 1.556 · #00748e
- Bimini BlueΔE00 1.932 · #007a91
- Pacific PleasureΔE00 2.024 · #167d97
- Pristine SeasΔE00 2.061 · #007799
- Mosaic BlueΔE00 2.063 · #007c94
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.