HueComb

Menthol Kiss

#a0e2d4

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

#a0e2d4

RGB

160, 226, 212

OKLCh

86.5% 0.069 179.9°

CIELAB (D50)

85.2, -23.8, -0.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.0; on black, Lc -81.3. 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 18.9 and 20.6 and 27.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.47:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#418276 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

#a0e2d4

protanopia

#dcdcd4 · ΔE00 18.9

deuteranopia

#d1d1d5 · ΔE00 20.6

tritanopia

#c5c5ff · ΔE00 27.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSea Glass Teal at ΔE00 1.112: 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.