Glassmith
#46b5c0
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#46b5c0
RGB
70, 181, 192
OKLCh
71.5% 0.100 204.4°
CIELAB (D50)
67.8, -30.0, -15.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 47.6; on black, Lc -54.4. 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 25.0 and 25.2 and 29.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.43:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.63:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.63:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#00848e 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
#46b5c0
protanopia
#adadc0 · ΔE00 25.0
deuteranopia
#9f9fc1 · ΔE00 25.2
tritanopia
#8d8dff · ΔE00 29.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThalassa at ΔE00 1.663: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- ThalassaΔE00 1.663 · #53b1ba
- Utopia BeckonsΔE00 2.014 · #32b6c7
- Cave LakeΔE00 2.027 · #52b7c6
- SussieΔE00 2.104 · #58bac2
- Lago BlueΔE00 2.137 · #1fb4c3
- AqualogicΔE00 2.15 · #57b7c5
- ShinbashiΔE00 2.25 · #59b9c6
- SpearfishΔE00 2.317 · #5fb6bf
- Panorama BlueΔE00 2.449 · #35bdc8
- Pharaoh’s SeasΔE00 2.457 · #59bbc2
- Water SportsΔE00 2.514 · #44bbcc
- AqueductΔE00 2.596 · #60b3bc
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.