Continental Waters
#98c6cb
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
#98c6cb
RGB
152, 198, 203
OKLCh
79.6% 0.049 204.5°
CIELAB (D50)
76.7, -14.8, -7.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 36% 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 35.1; on black, Lc -67.4. 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 16.7 and 18.0 and 21.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.86:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#527e83 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
#98c6cb
protanopia
#c2c2cb · ΔE00 16.7
deuteranopia
#babacc · ΔE00 18.0
tritanopia
#b1b1ff · ΔE00 21.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAdriatic Haze at ΔE00 0.82: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Adriatic HazeΔE00 0.82 · #96c6cd
- Cosmic BlueΔE00 1.443 · #93c3cb
- Chuff BlueΔE00 1.482 · #91c1c6
- Jellyfish BlueΔE00 1.61 · #95cad0
- Gentle AquamarineΔE00 1.685 · #97cbd2
- BathingΔE00 1.725 · #93c9d0
- Aqua MistΔE00 1.793 · #a0c9cb
- SurfsideΔE00 1.852 · #9acad3
- Canal BlueΔE00 2.025 · #9cc2c5
- PentagonΔE00 2.051 · #96ccd1
- Idyllic IsleΔE00 2.075 · #94c8d2
- Sea DewΔE00 2.146 · #9ecdd5
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.