HueComb

Water Park

#54af9c

A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#54af9c

RGB

84, 175, 156

OKLCh

69.3% 0.092 177.9°

CIELAB (D50)

65.5, -32.0, 1.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.0; on black, Lc -50.9. 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 21.3 and 23.1 and 36.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.63:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.99:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.99:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#238573 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#54af9c

protanopia

#a8a89c · ΔE00 21.3

deuteranopia

#9b9b9e · ΔE00 23.1

tritanopia

#8c8cff · ΔE00 36.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAmbrosial Oceanside at ΔE00 1.412: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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