Ice Cube
#afe3d6
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
#afe3d6
RGB
175, 227, 214
OKLCh
87.6% 0.056 177.9°
CIELAB (D50)
86.3, -19.3, 0.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% 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 20.2; on black, Lc -83.2. 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 16.6 and 17.9 and 26.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.42:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.78:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.78:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4f8075 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
#afe3d6
protanopia
#deded6 · ΔE00 16.6
deuteranopia
#d5d5d7 · ΔE00 17.9
tritanopia
#ccccff · ΔE00 26.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCapri Water Blue at ΔE00 0.815: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Capri Water BlueΔE00 0.815 · #abe2d6
- CruiseΔE00 1.301 · #b4e2d5
- BayΔE00 1.372 · #b3e2d3
- Aquatic MistΔE00 1.389 · #ade6db
- Ode to GreenΔE00 1.514 · #b6e5d6
- PrismΔE00 1.815 · #aadccd
- Jaded CloudsΔE00 1.851 · #aeddd3
- Water LeafΔE00 1.989 · #b6ecde
- Gentle GiantΔE00 2.025 · #b3ebe0
- Ice Cap GreenΔE00 2.061 · #b9e7dd
- Fair AquaΔE00 2.063 · #b4e1d8
- Coral GreenΔE00 2.185 · #abe2cf
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.