Infinity Pool
#94d4e4
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
#94d4e4
RGB
148, 212, 228
OKLCh
83.2% 0.068 215.0°
CIELAB (D50)
81.0, -18.1, -14.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.4; on black, Lc -74.5. 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 20.5 and 21.0 and 20.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.64:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.80:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.80:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#407f8e 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
#94d4e4
protanopia
#cecee4 · ΔE00 20.5
deuteranopia
#c4c4e5 · ΔE00 21.0
tritanopia
#b8b8ff · ΔE00 20.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOceano at ΔE00 0.915: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- OceanoΔE00 0.915 · #9ad6e5
- Orleans TuneΔE00 0.952 · #97d5e7
- Washed BlueΔE00 0.973 · #94d1df
- JulyΔE00 1.284 · #8bd2e3
- Blue SarongΔE00 1.337 · #9ad6e8
- PiccoloΔE00 1.352 · #8bd2e2
- Jodhpur BlueΔE00 1.472 · #9bd7e9
- Tourmaline Water BlueΔE00 1.482 · #99d3df
- Ocean CruiseΔE00 1.505 · #9cd4e1
- Foaming SurfΔE00 1.721 · #90d1dd
- Cool Water LakeΔE00 1.837 · #9bd9e5
- BayshoreΔE00 1.857 · #89cee0
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.