HueComb

Bay

#b3e2d3

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

#b3e2d3

RGB

179, 226, 211

OKLCh

87.6% 0.053 173.6°

CIELAB (D50)

86.3, -18.0, 2.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 32% 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 20.4; on black, Lc -83.0. 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 15.6 and 16.5 and 26.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.43:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#537f72 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

#b3e2d3

protanopia

#ddddd3 · ΔE00 15.6

deuteranopia

#d6d6d4 · ΔE00 16.5

tritanopia

#cdcdff · ΔE00 26.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOde to Green at ΔE00 0.686: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Ode to GreenΔE00 0.686 · #b6e5d6
  • CruiseΔE00 0.746 · #b4e2d5
  • Filtered ForestΔE00 1.167 · #b7e1d2
  • Ice CubeΔE00 1.372 · #afe3d6
  • Brook GreenΔE00 1.399 · #afddcc
  • PrismΔE00 1.674 · #aadccd
  • Jade SeaΔE00 1.752 · #b8e0d0
  • Crystal RapidsΔE00 1.786 · #b2e4d0
  • Mint IceΔE00 1.849 · #bde8d8
  • Pale Mountain Lake TurquoiseΔE00 1.91 · #bae1d3
  • Mint MistΔE00 1.968 · #b9e0d3
  • Coral GreenΔE00 2.064 · #abe2cf

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.