Pacific Pleasure
#167d97
A cyan that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#167d97
RGB
22, 125, 151
OKLCh
54.7% 0.095 220.3°
CIELAB (D50)
48.0, -21.4, -22.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 95% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.6; on black, Lc -29.1. 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 22.8 and 22.2 and 22.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.76:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.41:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.76:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#167d97
protanopia
#777797 · ΔE00 22.8
deuteranopia
#6b6b98 · ΔE00 22.2
tritanopia
#5c5cf4 · ΔE00 22.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMosaic Blue at ΔE00 1.282: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mosaic BlueΔE00 1.282 · #007c94
- Amazing SkyΔE00 1.329 · #017f9d
- Valley of GlaciersΔE00 1.508 · #2d7e96
- Deep UniverseΔE00 1.587 · #017f9e
- HavasuΔE00 1.665 · #007993
- Jade ShardΔE00 1.683 · #017b92
- Bayou SerenadeΔE00 1.742 · #017992
- Best of Both WorldsΔE00 1.762 · #01809f
- Bimini BlueΔE00 1.889 · #007a91
- Decore SplashΔE00 1.895 · #00829e
- PagodaΔE00 1.915 · #127e93
- Turkish StoneΔE00 1.995 · #2f7a92
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.