Winter Wizard
#a0e6ff
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
#a0e6ff
RGB
160, 230, 255
OKLCh
88.7% 0.078 222.3°
CIELAB (D50)
87.3, -18.1, -19.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 18.3; on black, Lc -85.3. 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 20.9 and 20.5 and 20.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.26:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.26:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#3a7f96 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
#a0e6ff
protanopia
#e0e0ff · ΔE00 20.9
deuteranopia
#d5d5ff · ΔE00 20.5
tritanopia
#c8c8ff · ΔE00 20.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFresh Air at ΔE00 0.836: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fresh AirΔE00 0.836 · #a6e7ff
- Ganon BlueΔE00 0.932 · #a4e4fc
- Beyond the CloudsΔE00 3.061 · #aaeeff
- Frozen LandscapeΔE00 3.073 · #aee4ff
- Non-Photo BlueΔE00 3.446 · #a4dded
- Columbia BlueΔE00 3.524 · #9bddff
- Sora BlueΔE00 3.545 · #a0d8ef
- Tranquil PoolΔE00 3.597 · #88ddff
- Van Gogh BlueΔE00 3.603 · #abddf1
- Atmospheric Soft BlueΔE00 3.641 · #ace1f0
- Mizu CyanΔE00 3.706 · #a7dbed
- Gas GiantΔE00 3.776 · #98dcff
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.