Summit
#8bb6b8
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
#8bb6b8
RGB
139, 182, 184
OKLCh
74.6% 0.046 199.8°
CIELAB (D50)
71.0, -14.5, -6.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 36% 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 43.6; on black, Lc -58.6. 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 15.9 and 17.3 and 23.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.21:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.48:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.48:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#547e80 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
#8bb6b8
protanopia
#b2b2b8 · ΔE00 15.9
deuteranopia
#ababb9 · ΔE00 17.3
tritanopia
#a3a3ff · ΔE00 23.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEyefull at ΔE00 0.583: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- EyefullΔE00 0.583 · #8db6b7
- WatchetΔE00 1.115 · #8fbabc
- LorianΔE00 1.726 · #8ebcbd
- Cold Front GreenΔE00 1.881 · #85b3b2
- Blithe BlueΔE00 2.069 · #90bdbd
- Turner’s LightΔE00 2.138 · #93bcbb
- Artful AquaΔE00 2.206 · #91b4b3
- Lifeboat BlueΔE00 2.429 · #81b6bc
- Kitchen BlueΔE00 2.548 · #8ab5bd
- Vintage BlueΔE00 2.649 · #87b8b5
- Baroque BlueΔE00 2.71 · #95b6b5
- Kingston AquaΔE00 2.963 · #8fbcc4
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.