HueComb

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#44ddff

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

Hex

#44ddff

RGB

68, 221, 255

OKLCh

83.3% 0.132 216.3°

CIELAB (D50)

81.4, -32.9, -28.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 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 27.0; on black, Lc -75.9. 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 26.8 and 26.8 and 28.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.61:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.03:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.03:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#00829a 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

#44ddff

protanopia

#d3d3ff · ΔE00 26.8

deuteranopia

#c0c0ff · ΔE00 26.8

tritanopia

#a9a9ff · ΔE00 28.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBerta Blue at ΔE00 0.396: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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