HueComb

Poolside

#bee0e2

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

#bee0e2

RGB

190, 224, 226

OKLCh

88.3% 0.036 200.9°

CIELAB (D50)

86.8, -11.2, -4.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 35 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 25% 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 19.6; on black, Lc -83.9. 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 13.3 and 14.4 and 20.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.40:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.95:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.95:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5d7c7e 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

#bee0e2

protanopia

#dddde2 · ΔE00 13.3

deuteranopia

#d7d7e3 · ΔE00 14.4

tritanopia

#d0d0ff · ΔE00 20.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRight as Rain at ΔE00 0.631: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Right as RainΔE00 0.631 · #c0e1e4
  • Cold Well WaterΔE00 0.676 · #c1e2e3
  • Cold WaveΔE00 0.837 · #c2e2e3
  • Aqua WhisperΔE00 0.954 · #bfdfdf
  • Aquarelle BlueΔE00 0.961 · #bfe0e4
  • Light Daly WatersΔE00 1.019 · #c2e4e7
  • Delicate TurquoiseΔE00 1.029 · #c0dfe2
  • Mech SuitΔE00 1.124 · #bbdddd
  • Infinitesimal BlueΔE00 1.256 · #bddde1
  • H₂OΔE00 1.31 · #bfe1e6
  • Bathe BlueΔE00 1.318 · #c2e0e3
  • Yù Shí Bái WhiteΔE00 1.345 · #c0e2e1

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