Seafoam Whisper
#a1bdbf
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a1bdbf
RGB
161, 189, 191
OKLCh
77.8% 0.031 201.8°
CIELAB (D50)
74.6, -9.5, -4.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% 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 38.5; on black, Lc -63.9. 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 11.8 and 12.8 and 21.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.99:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#617c7d 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
#a1bdbf
protanopia
#bababf · ΔE00 11.8
deuteranopia
#b5b5c0 · ΔE00 12.8
tritanopia
#b0b0fd · ΔE00 21.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWarm Breezes at ΔE00 0.538: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Warm BreezesΔE00 0.538 · #a1bec1
- Windswept CloudsΔE00 1.491 · #9eb8bb
- FalklandΔE00 1.577 · #a5bebd
- Oslo BlueΔE00 1.603 · #a6bdbe
- Ocean KissΔE00 1.677 · #a4c3c5
- Wild LifeΔE00 1.694 · #a5c1c0
- Aspiring BlueΔE00 1.932 · #a2c1c0
- Seafoam SlateΔE00 1.947 · #a6bcbe
- Clear VistaΔE00 1.958 · #a3bec4
- Frosty GladeΔE00 2.005 · #a0c0bf
- Blende BlueΔE00 2.077 · #a9c4c4
- Swan SeaΔE00 2.078 · #a6c1bf
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.