HueComb

Beach Glass

#96dfce

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

#96dfce

RGB

150, 223, 206

OKLCh

85.1% 0.077 178.1°

CIELAB (D50)

83.7, -26.4, 0.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.4; on black, Lc -78.7. 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 19.6 and 21.3 and 29.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.53:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#3a8374 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

#96dfce

protanopia

#d8d8ce · ΔE00 19.6

deuteranopia

#cdcdcf · ΔE00 21.3

tritanopia

#c0c0ff · ΔE00 29.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTropical Freeze at ΔE00 0.839: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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