Crystal Lake
#88b5c4
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
#88b5c4
RGB
136, 181, 196
OKLCh
74.6% 0.052 220.4°
CIELAB (D50)
70.8, -12.8, -12.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% 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 43.7; on black, Lc -58.4. 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 16.9 and 17.8 and 17.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#527d8b 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
#88b5c4
protanopia
#b1b1c4 · ΔE00 16.9
deuteranopia
#a9a9c5 · ΔE00 17.8
tritanopia
#a1a1ff · ΔE00 17.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPond Blue at ΔE00 0.819: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pond BlueΔE00 0.819 · #8bb6c6
- Thistleblossom Soft BlueΔE00 1.281 · #8ab3bf
- Blue Bird MorningΔE00 1.612 · #86b8cb
- Blue EchoΔE00 1.686 · #8dbbc9
- Sea AngelΔE00 1.768 · #8bb8c3
- Open SeasΔE00 1.854 · #83afbc
- Trisha’s EyesΔE00 1.877 · #8eb9c4
- HeavenlyΔE00 1.993 · #7eb2c5
- Sebastian InletΔE00 2.221 · #84aeba
- Tennis BlueΔE00 2.348 · #7cb5c6
- Resolute BlueΔE00 2.479 · #85b0c4
- Bermuda BlueΔE00 2.497 · #8cb1c2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.