HueComb

Permafrost

#98eff9

A cyan that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#98eff9

RGB

152, 239, 249

OKLCh

90.0% 0.085 205.1°

CIELAB (D50)

89.2, -25.5, -13.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.1; on black, Lc -88.6. 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 23.4 and 23.9 and 24.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.31:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#25828c 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

#98eff9

protanopia

#e7e7f9 · ΔE00 23.4

deuteranopia

#dadafa · ΔE00 23.9

tritanopia

#cacaff · ΔE00 24.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShallow Water at ΔE00 1.84: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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