Hidden Sea Glass
#6fd1c9
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#6fd1c9
RGB
111, 209, 201
OKLCh
79.9% 0.093 188.5°
CIELAB (D50)
77.7, -31.7, -5.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.3; on black, Lc -69.3. 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 22.3 and 25.1 and 30.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.80:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.64:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.64:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#10857e 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
#6fd1c9
protanopia
#c9c9c9 · ΔE00 22.3
deuteranopia
#bbbbcb · ΔE00 25.1
tritanopia
#aaaaff · ΔE00 30.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSkylar at ΔE00 1.711: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SkylarΔE00 1.711 · #6bccc1
- Turkish TealΔE00 1.924 · #72cac1
- Water WingsΔE00 2.063 · #80d5cc
- Isle RoyaleΔE00 2.201 · #80d7cf
- Nile StoneΔE00 2.286 · #61c9c1
- Dip in the PoolΔE00 2.289 · #68cfc1
- Island SeaΔE00 2.339 · #81d7d0
- CyantificΔE00 2.417 · #77c9c2
- Blue Green GemΔE00 2.504 · #7ccbc5
- Water WonderΔE00 2.513 · #80d4d0
- BaysideΔE00 2.533 · #5fc9bf
- Setting SailΔE00 2.564 · #5ccbc7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.