HueComb

Icy Breeze

#c4ecf0

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

#c4ecf0

RGB

196, 236, 240

OKLCh

91.6% 0.042 203.9°

CIELAB (D50)

90.6, -12.8, -6.5

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 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.1; on black, Lc -90.8. 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 14.9 and 16.2 and 19.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.26:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.60:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.60:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#587d81 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

#c4ecf0

protanopia

#e8e8f0 · ΔE00 14.9

deuteranopia

#e1e1f1 · ΔE00 16.2

tritanopia

#d9d9ff · ΔE00 19.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLaunderette Blue at ΔE00 1.087: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Launderette BlueΔE00 1.087 · #c0e7eb
  • Egg BlueΔE00 1.13 · #c1e7eb
  • Light OpaleΔE00 1.187 · #c1e8ea
  • Light VandamintΔE00 1.194 · #bfe7ea
  • Silent BreezeΔE00 1.211 · #c6eaec
  • Ice FlowerΔE00 1.502 · #c3e7ec
  • On Cloud NineΔE00 1.665 · #c2e7e8
  • VaporisedΔE00 1.694 · #cbf4f8
  • Pale SeafoamΔE00 1.738 · #c3e7e8
  • Blue KarmaΔE00 1.79 · #bce6e8
  • La Paz SiestaΔE00 1.805 · #c1e5ea
  • Niagara MistΔE00 1.82 · #c5e8ee

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