HueComb

Stormy Waters

#84a9b0

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

#84a9b0

RGB

132, 169, 176

OKLCh

71.0% 0.042 210.4°

CIELAB (D50)

66.7, -11.8, -8.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 34% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 49.7; on black, Lc -52.3. 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 14.7 and 15.9 and 20.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.54:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.28:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.28:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#597d83 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#84a9b0

protanopia

#a5a5b0 · ΔE00 14.7

deuteranopia

#9f9fb1 · ΔE00 15.9

tritanopia

#9898f7 · ΔE00 20.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEquanimity at ΔE00 1.23: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.