Wavelet
#7dc4cd
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
#7dc4cd
RGB
125, 196, 205
OKLCh
77.7% 0.072 206.0°
CIELAB (D50)
74.7, -21.5, -12.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 37.9; on black, Lc -64.5. 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 21.6 and 22.5 and 24.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.97:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.65:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.65:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#398189 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
#7dc4cd
protanopia
#bebecd · ΔE00 21.6
deuteranopia
#b3b3ce · ΔE00 22.5
tritanopia
#a6a6ff · ΔE00 24.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAngel Blue at ΔE00 0.882: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Angel BlueΔE00 0.882 · #83c5cd
- Pearl BayΔE00 1.224 · #7fc6cc
- MeltwaterΔE00 1.507 · #79c0cc
- Twisted BlueΔE00 1.51 · #76c4d1
- Lagoona TealΔE00 1.639 · #76c6d3
- Not a Cloud in SightΔE00 1.651 · #85c8d3
- Antigua SandΔE00 1.671 · #83c2cd
- ValoniaΔE00 1.708 · #79c9d1
- Big Sky CountryΔE00 1.737 · #85c4c9
- Salt LakeΔE00 1.773 · #74c6d3
- Luna MoonaΔE00 1.92 · #70c1c9
- Aqua VitaleΔE00 1.927 · #7bbdc7
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.