Dolphin
#86c4da
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
#86c4da
RGB
134, 196, 218
OKLCh
78.6% 0.071 222.2°
CIELAB (D50)
75.5, -16.5, -17.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.7; on black, Lc -65.8. 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 20.1 and 20.0 and 18.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.92:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#417f93 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
#86c4da
protanopia
#bebeda · ΔE00 20.1
deuteranopia
#b5b5db · ΔE00 20.0
tritanopia
#a9a9ff · ΔE00 18.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDreaming Blue at ΔE00 1.069: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dreaming BlueΔE00 1.069 · #8ac2d6
- Blue CharmΔE00 1.076 · #82c2db
- Winter ChimeΔE00 1.104 · #83c7df
- Ocean HorizonΔE00 1.112 · #7fc1d8
- Sky BabeΔE00 1.218 · #88c1d8
- Sky FallΔE00 1.234 · #89c6df
- Budgie BlueΔE00 1.503 · #84c9e1
- BoutonniereΔE00 1.609 · #8cc1d6
- Gossamer ThreadsΔE00 1.712 · #8ac8e2
- Bliss BlueΔE00 2.143 · #7ac7e1
- Blue GlintΔE00 2.18 · #92c6d7
- Eastern SkyΔE00 2.292 · #8fc1d2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.