High Dive
#59b9cc
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#59b9cc
RGB
89, 185, 204
OKLCh
73.5% 0.094 212.4°
CIELAB (D50)
69.9, -25.4, -18.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.6; on black, Lc -57.5. 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 23.9 and 23.7 and 25.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.27:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.24:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.24:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#128295 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
#59b9cc
protanopia
#b1b1cc · ΔE00 23.9
deuteranopia
#a4a4cd · ΔE00 23.7
tritanopia
#9494ff · ΔE00 25.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGlimpse at ΔE00 0.928: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- GlimpseΔE00 0.928 · #4fb9ce
- Mountain Range BlueΔE00 1.05 · #53b8c9
- FountainΔE00 1.289 · #56b5ca
- Liquid BlueΔE00 1.365 · #55b7ce
- Delusional DragonflyΔE00 1.41 · #66bbcc
- Water BabyΔE00 1.606 · #5ab5cb
- Teal MoiréΔE00 1.63 · #50b7cf
- Blue BobbinΔE00 1.699 · #52b4ca
- SkydiveΔE00 1.73 · #60bfd3
- Cave LakeΔE00 1.754 · #52b7c6
- AqualogicΔE00 1.817 · #57b7c5
- Blouson BlueΔE00 1.841 · #67b7c6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.