HueComb

Vaporwave Blue

#22ddff

A cyan that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#22ddff

RGB

34, 221, 255

OKLCh

82.7% 0.141 214.7°

CIELAB (D50)

80.9, -36.0, -29.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 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 27.6; on black, Lc -75.3. 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 27.8 and 28.0 and 29.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.63:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.85:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.85:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#008298 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#22ddff

protanopia

#d2d2ff · ΔE00 27.8

deuteranopia

#bebeff · ΔE00 28.0

tritanopia

#a5a5ff · ΔE00 29.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSplashing Wave at ΔE00 1.251: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Splashing WaveΔE00 1.251 · #44ddff
  • Neon BlueΔE00 1.379 · #04d9ff
  • Berta BlueΔE00 1.481 · #45dcff
  • Ionized-Air GlowΔE00 2.246 · #55ddff
  • Athena BlueΔE00 3.522 · #66ddff
  • Electric LemonadeΔE00 3.546 · #5cdcf1
  • Libra Blue MorphoΔE00 3.952 · #4cd5ff
  • Picnic Day SkyΔE00 4.117 · #00ccee
  • Blue DacnisΔE00 4.5 · #44ddee
  • Shimmering Expanse CyanΔE00 4.648 · #45e9fd
  • Cold HeightsΔE00 4.85 · #22ddee
  • TamaramaΔE00 4.982 · #11ddee

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