HueComb

Seafoam Splashes

#b0efce

A green 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

#b0efce

RGB

176, 239, 206

OKLCh

90.1% 0.078 161.5°

CIELAB (D50)

89.5, -25.6, 9.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.1; on black, Lc -88.7. 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 16.9 and 17.8 and 29.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.31:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.08:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.08:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#468265 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

#b0efce

protanopia

#e9e9ce · ΔE00 16.9

deuteranopia

#dfdfcf · ΔE00 17.8

tritanopia

#d3d3ff · ΔE00 29.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEsoteric Touch Green at ΔE00 1.062: 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.