Exotic Escape
#96d9df
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
#96d9df
RGB
150, 217, 223
OKLCh
84.3% 0.068 203.0°
CIELAB (D50)
82.4, -20.8, -10.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.3; on black, Lc -76.7. 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 20.7 and 22.0 and 23.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#3e8186 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
#96d9df
protanopia
#d3d3df · ΔE00 20.7
deuteranopia
#c8c8e0 · ΔE00 22.0
tritanopia
#bcbcff · ΔE00 23.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArctic Blue at ΔE00 0.725: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Arctic BlueΔE00 0.725 · #95d6dc
- Mini BlueΔE00 0.876 · #96d7db
- Quiet PondΔE00 1.468 · #94d8e2
- Aqua BloomΔE00 1.59 · #96d3d8
- Lake ReflectionΔE00 1.595 · #9dd8db
- DulcetΔE00 1.807 · #9ad4d8
- Aroma BlueΔE00 1.932 · #96d2d6
- Vibrant Soft BlueΔE00 1.989 · #88d6dc
- VIC 20 SkyΔE00 2.072 · #87d6dd
- Maya GreenΔE00 2.151 · #98d2d9
- Plunging WaterfallΔE00 2.235 · #8cd4df
- Fresh BlueΔE00 2.395 · #8bd6e2
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.