HueComb

Aqua Fiesta

#96e2e1

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

#96e2e1

RGB

150, 226, 225

OKLCh

86.3% 0.075 194.8°

CIELAB (D50)

84.9, -24.5, -7.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.3; on black, Lc -81.0. 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 21.4 and 23.2 and 25.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.47:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.26:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.26:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#358282 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

#96e2e1

protanopia

#dbdbe1 · ΔE00 21.4

deuteranopia

#cfcfe2 · ΔE00 23.2

tritanopia

#c1c1ff · ΔE00 25.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPale Pastel at ΔE00 1.527: 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.