HueComb

Tantalising Teal

#87dcce

A cyan that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#87dcce

RGB

135, 220, 206

OKLCh

83.6% 0.085 182.5°

CIELAB (D50)

82.1, -29.4, -1.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.8; on black, Lc -76.2. 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 21.1 and 23.4 and 29.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.60:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.16:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.16:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#2a8478 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

#87dcce

protanopia

#d5d5ce · ΔE00 21.1

deuteranopia

#c8c8d0 · ΔE00 23.4

tritanopia

#b8b8ff · ΔE00 29.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShimmering Blue at ΔE00 0.69: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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