Finnish Fiord
#5db0be
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#5db0be
RGB
93, 176, 190
OKLCh
71.0% 0.083 209.7°
CIELAB (D50)
67.0, -23.5, -15.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.8; on black, Lc -53.2. 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 23.1 and 23.3 and 25.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.49:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#2a828f 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
#5db0be
protanopia
#a9a9be · ΔE00 23.1
deuteranopia
#9d9dbf · ΔE00 23.3
tritanopia
#8f8fff · ΔE00 25.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOcean Trip at ΔE00 1.018: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Ocean TripΔE00 1.018 · #62aeba
- Aqua VerdeΔE00 1.25 · #56b3c3
- Well WaterΔE00 1.298 · #63adb9
- Glacier LakeΔE00 1.349 · #62b4c0
- Sea SerenadeΔE00 1.566 · #67b3be
- AqueductΔE00 1.988 · #60b3bc
- AdonisΔE00 2.008 · #64b5bf
- Verditer BlueΔE00 2.06 · #55aabb
- GondolierΔE00 2.083 · #5db1c5
- Montana SkyΔE00 2.122 · #6ab0b9
- ExperienceΔE00 2.146 · #64acb5
- AqualogicΔE00 2.177 · #57b7c5
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.