Frozen Wave
#56acca
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#56acca
RGB
86, 172, 202
OKLCh
70.3% 0.093 223.4°
CIELAB (D50)
65.9, -20.5, -23.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.2; on black, Lc -51.7. 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 22.1 and 21.4 and 21.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.15:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.15:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#24809d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#56acca
protanopia
#a5a5ca · ΔE00 22.1
deuteranopia
#9999cb · ΔE00 21.4
tritanopia
#8a8aff · ΔE00 21.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrystal Seas at ΔE00 1.2: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Crystal SeasΔE00 1.2 · #5dafce
- Estero SkyΔE00 1.283 · #54a9ca
- Maximum BlueΔE00 1.384 · #47abcc
- Dragonfly BlueΔE00 1.577 · #45abca
- Pottery BlueΔE00 1.827 · #54a6c2
- Blue MistΔE00 2.062 · #5bacc3
- EpimetheusΔE00 2.174 · #4bb2d5
- Summer AirΔE00 2.174 · #3fafcf
- SantoriniΔE00 2.186 · #41b0d0
- Blue TopazΔE00 2.188 · #65aece
- FlywayΔE00 2.264 · #5db3d4
- Blue MartiniΔE00 2.34 · #52b4d3
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.