Cool
#96b3b3
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
#96b3b3
RGB
150, 179, 179
OKLCh
74.5% 0.032 196.5°
CIELAB (D50)
70.8, -10.3, -3.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 25% 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 44.0; on black, Lc -58.1. 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 12.1 and 13.1 and 22.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#607c7c 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
#96b3b3
protanopia
#b0b0b3 · ΔE00 12.1
deuteranopia
#ababb4 · ΔE00 13.1
tritanopia
#a6a6f2 · ΔE00 22.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCalcite Blue at ΔE00 0.456: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Calcite BlueΔE00 0.456 · #94b2b2
- Gulf WindsΔE00 0.716 · #93b2b2
- Smooth-Hound SharkΔE00 0.73 · #97b2b1
- EtherΔE00 1.427 · #98b2b4
- Baroque BlueΔE00 1.43 · #95b6b5
- Lake ForestΔE00 1.433 · #96b4b1
- Artful AquaΔE00 1.83 · #91b4b3
- Renew BlueΔE00 1.947 · #9cb8b5
- UnderseaΔE00 2.079 · #90b1ae
- Quiet MomentΔE00 2.253 · #96aeb0
- SlidingΔE00 2.292 · #97aeaf
- Powder MillΔE00 2.312 · #9cb3b5
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.