Mint Twist
#98cbba
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
#98cbba
RGB
152, 203, 186
OKLCh
80.2% 0.059 172.2°
CIELAB (D50)
77.7, -20.0, 2.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 38% 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 33.7; on black, Lc -68.9. 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 16.4 and 17.3 and 29.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.81:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.59:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.59:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4f8071 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
#98cbba
protanopia
#c6c6ba · ΔE00 16.4
deuteranopia
#bebebb · ΔE00 17.3
tritanopia
#b4b4ff · ΔE00 29.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCool Juniper at ΔE00 0.693: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cool JuniperΔE00 0.693 · #9acaba
- Thermal AquaΔE00 0.919 · #9ccebe
- Float Your BoatΔE00 1.634 · #93c5b6
- Catarina GreenΔE00 1.901 · #90c4b4
- TareytonΔE00 1.994 · #a1cdbf
- Bella GreenΔE00 2.118 · #93c3b1
- Mint Ice CreamΔE00 2.379 · #98cdb5
- Opal TurquoiseΔE00 2.379 · #96d1c3
- WintermintΔE00 2.438 · #94d2bf
- Beach BreezeΔE00 2.448 · #91cbbf
- AquastoneΔE00 2.756 · #89c6b7
- RefreshΔE00 2.997 · #a1d4c8
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.