Laguna
#36a5c9
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#36a5c9
RGB
54, 165, 201
OKLCh
67.5% 0.110 224.0°
CIELAB (D50)
62.8, -23.1, -28.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 87% 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 54.2; on black, Lc -47.6. 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 23.4 and 22.8 and 23.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.84:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#0081a2 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.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#36a5c9
protanopia
#9d9dc9 · ΔE00 23.4
deuteranopia
#9090ca · ΔE00 22.8
tritanopia
#7e7eff · ΔE00 23.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSardinia Beaches at ΔE00 0.92: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sardinia BeachesΔE00 0.92 · #28a4cb
- Blue Raspberry SeedΔE00 0.969 · #3aa2c6
- Celestine SpringΔE00 1.063 · #24a4c8
- RebootΔE00 1.134 · #28a8cd
- Oasis SpringΔE00 1.453 · #47a3c6
- CharybdisΔE00 1.537 · #16a3cb
- SkydomeΔE00 1.683 · #38a3cc
- Cyan BlueΔE00 1.707 · #14a3c7
- ModalΔE00 1.838 · #31a6d1
- Maximum BlueΔE00 2.16 · #47abcc
- Resonant BlueΔE00 2.172 · #01a2c6
- Sea RidgeΔE00 2.199 · #45a3cb
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.