Summer Mist
#cbeaee
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
#cbeaee
RGB
203, 234, 238
OKLCh
91.6% 0.033 206.1°
CIELAB (D50)
90.5, -9.9, -5.5
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 39% 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 13.4; on black, Lc -90.5. 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 12.5 and 13.5 and 17.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.27:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.54:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.54:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5f7c7f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cbeaee
protanopia
#e7e7ee · ΔE00 12.5
deuteranopia
#e2e2ef · ΔE00 13.5
tritanopia
#dbdbff · ΔE00 17.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHand Sanitizer at ΔE00 0.963: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hand SanitizerΔE00 0.963 · #ceecee
- SnowmeltΔE00 1.027 · #c9e6e9
- Sprinkled With DewΔE00 1.062 · #cfecee
- Diamond LeagueΔE00 1.085 · #d0eff3
- Ethereal MoodΔE00 1.286 · #cce7eb
- Fountain SpoutΔE00 1.287 · #cdebec
- Blue EmulsionΔE00 1.343 · #d1edef
- Journey to the SkyΔE00 1.35 · #cdeced
- Niagara MistΔE00 1.365 · #c5e8ee
- Ice AgeΔE00 1.392 · #c6e4e9
- WindsweptΔE00 1.493 · #d1f1f5
- Babymoon BlueΔE00 1.494 · #c8e4e7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.