HueComb

Jade Sea

#b8e0d0

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

#b8e0d0

RGB

184, 224, 208

OKLCh

87.4% 0.047 169.0°

CIELAB (D50)

86.0, -15.9, 3.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 27% 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 20.9; on black, Lc -82.4. 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 14.0 and 14.8 and 26.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.44:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.61:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.61:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#597e70 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

#b8e0d0

protanopia

#dcdcd0 · ΔE00 14.0

deuteranopia

#d5d5d1 · ΔE00 14.8

tritanopia

#ceceff · ΔE00 26.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDesert Mirage at ΔE00 0.469: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Desert MirageΔE00 0.469 · #b9e0cf
  • Filtered ForestΔE00 0.668 · #b7e1d2
  • Pale Mountain Lake TurquoiseΔE00 0.812 · #bae1d3
  • Mint MistΔE00 1.111 · #b9e0d3
  • Refrigerator GreenΔE00 1.132 · #badfcd
  • BeruΔE00 1.315 · #bfe4d4
  • Jade SpellΔE00 1.695 · #c1e5d5
  • Brook GreenΔE00 1.75 · #afddcc
  • BayΔE00 1.752 · #b3e2d3
  • Elephant ToothpasteΔE00 1.819 · #c0e8d8
  • Mint IceΔE00 1.83 · #bde8d8
  • CruiseΔE00 1.922 · #b4e2d5

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