HueComb

Shallow Water

#8af1fe

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

Hex

#8af1fe

RGB

138, 241, 254

OKLCh

90.0% 0.098 206.1°

CIELAB (D50)

89.3, -28.9, -16.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 97% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.9; on black, Lc -88.8. 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 24.7 and 24.8 and 25.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.09:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.09:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#00838f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#8af1fe

protanopia

#e8e8fe · ΔE00 24.7

deuteranopia

#d9d9ff · ΔE00 24.8

tritanopia

#c7c7ff · ΔE00 25.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPhoton Projector at ΔE00 1.44: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.