HueComb

Paradisiacal Getaway

#8ddee1

A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#8ddee1

RGB

141, 222, 225

OKLCh

85.0% 0.079 198.8°

CIELAB (D50)

83.4, -25.2, -9.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.7; on black, Lc -78.4. 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 22.4 and 23.8 and 25.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.54:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.67:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.67:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#2e8286 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

#8ddee1

protanopia

#d7d7e1 · ΔE00 22.4

deuteranopia

#cbcbe2 · ΔE00 23.8

tritanopia

#bcbcff · ΔE00 25.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCold Blue at ΔE00 1.342: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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