Skydive
#60bfd3
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#60bfd3
RGB
96, 191, 211
OKLCh
75.4% 0.094 213.2°
CIELAB (D50)
72.2, -25.1, -19.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 41.4; on black, Lc -60.8. 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 23.8 and 23.6 and 24.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.12:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.89:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.89:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#138295 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
#60bfd3
protanopia
#b7b7d3 · ΔE00 23.8
deuteranopia
#aaaad4 · ΔE00 23.6
tritanopia
#9a9aff · ΔE00 24.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRushing Stream at ΔE00 1.128: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Rushing StreamΔE00 1.128 · #65c3d6
- Delusional DragonflyΔE00 1.471 · #66bbcc
- Naxos SkyΔE00 1.632 · #5dc2db
- High DiveΔE00 1.73 · #59b9cc
- Skink BlueΔE00 1.863 · #5cbfce
- SqueakyΔE00 1.949 · #6cc4da
- GlimpseΔE00 2.117 · #4fb9ce
- Surfin’ΔE00 2.132 · #73c0d2
- Faded JeansΔE00 2.16 · #5dbdcb
- Fitness BlueΔE00 2.276 · #5bb9d2
- ThredboΔE00 2.301 · #73c4d7
- Bachelor ButtonΔE00 2.394 · #4abbd5
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.