HueComb

Aquatic Edge

#bfd6d1

A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#bfd6d1

RGB

191, 214, 209

OKLCh

85.8% 0.026 181.2°

CIELAB (D50)

83.8, -8.7, -0.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 17% 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 24.4; on black, Lc -78.7. 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 9.8 and 10.5 and 21.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.53:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.75:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.75:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#667b77 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

#bfd6d1

protanopia

#d4d4d1 · ΔE00 9.8

deuteranopia

#d0d0d1 · ΔE00 10.5

tritanopia

#cbcbff · ΔE00 21.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoast to Coast at ΔE00 0.995: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Coast to CoastΔE00 0.995 · #bdd4d1
  • Morning Dew WhiteΔE00 1.455 · #c6dbd6
  • Cool MintΔE00 1.511 · #c6dad5
  • Viridian GreenΔE00 1.512 · #bcd7d4
  • QuaverΔE00 1.608 · #bed3cb
  • Green WaveΔE00 1.669 · #c3dcd5
  • Déjà VuΔE00 1.691 · #bed1cc
  • Breath of GreenΔE00 1.719 · #bdd1ce
  • Jet StreamΔE00 1.759 · #bbd0c9
  • Spearmint IceΔE00 1.763 · #bfd3cb
  • Whipped MintΔE00 1.9 · #c7ddd6
  • GeyserΔE00 1.937 · #c4d7cf

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