HueComb

Corfu Waters

#008aad

A cyan that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#008aad

RGB

0, 138, 173

OKLCh

58.8% 0.110 223.9°

CIELAB (D50)

52.7, -22.6, -27.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.8; on black, Lc -34.9. 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 23.3 and 22.8 and 23.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.01:1 — large text only

Black text

5.24:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.24:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#0081a2 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#008aad

protanopia

#8383ad · ΔE00 23.3

deuteranopia

#7676ae · ΔE00 22.8

tritanopia

#6565ff · ΔE00 23.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTiny Bubbles at ΔE00 0.719: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Tiny BubblesΔE00 0.719 · #0088ab
  • Algiers BlueΔE00 1.063 · #008db0
  • Hacienda BlueΔE00 1.228 · #0087a8
  • Capri BreezeΔE00 1.299 · #0089a8
  • Mediterranean SeaΔE00 1.394 · #1e8cab
  • Caribbean SeaΔE00 1.407 · #0087a7
  • LyrebirdΔE00 1.451 · #0087ad
  • Stomy ShowerΔE00 1.71 · #0088b0
  • Azores BlueΔE00 1.826 · #0085a7
  • QuintanaΔE00 2.059 · #008ca9
  • Tibetan TurquoiseΔE00 2.189 · #0084a6
  • Spinnaker BlueΔE00 2.197 · #018cb6

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