Atlas Cedar
#5ca0a7
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#5ca0a7
RGB
92, 160, 167
OKLCh
66.3% 0.070 204.2°
CIELAB (D50)
61.6, -21.1, -10.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.3; on black, Lc -45.5. 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 21.1 and 22.3 and 26.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.98:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.04:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.04:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#3c8188 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
#5ca0a7
protanopia
#9a9aa7 · ΔE00 21.1
deuteranopia
#9090a8 · ΔE00 22.3
tritanopia
#8484ff · ΔE00 26.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAqua Sea at ΔE00 0.965: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Aqua SeaΔE00 0.965 · #61a1a9
- Beach BlueΔE00 1.477 · #5f9ca2
- HydroportΔE00 1.523 · #5e9ca1
- MeadowbrookΔE00 1.58 · #60a0a3
- Nirvana JewelΔE00 1.857 · #64a5ad
- Echo OneΔE00 1.928 · #629da6
- Bali BlissΔE00 2.059 · #5e9ea0
- Cadet BlueΔE00 2.065 · #5f9ea0
- Blue MercuryΔE00 2.217 · #67a6ac
- Basilica BlueΔE00 2.258 · #4a9fa7
- Tropical OasisΔE00 2.462 · #579aa5
- RockpoolΔE00 2.472 · #519ea1
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.