Sea Glass Teal
#a0e5d9
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
#a0e5d9
RGB
160, 229, 217
OKLCh
87.3% 0.071 182.6°
CIELAB (D50)
86.1, -24.4, -1.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 20.5; on black, Lc -82.9. 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 19.3 and 21.4 and 27.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.43:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.70:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.70:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#3e8278 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
#a0e5d9
protanopia
#dfdfd9 · ΔE00 19.3
deuteranopia
#d4d4da · ΔE00 21.4
tritanopia
#c7c7ff · ΔE00 27.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSharbah Fizz at ΔE00 0.742: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sharbah FizzΔE00 0.742 · #9be3d7
- Menthol KissΔE00 1.112 · #a0e2d4
- NeverlandΔE00 1.185 · #9ce5d6
- Pale Robin Egg BlueΔE00 1.852 · #96ded1
- Land Ahoy!ΔE00 2.155 · #97ddd4
- Aquatic MistΔE00 2.215 · #ade6db
- Aqua WishΔE00 2.267 · #a0e3d1
- FrostyΔE00 2.28 · #a1ded6
- VidaliaΔE00 2.312 · #a1ddd4
- Beach GlassΔE00 2.445 · #96dfce
- Capri Water BlueΔE00 2.483 · #abe2d6
- Mint TeaΔE00 2.496 · #afeee1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.