Oasis

#0092a3

A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#0092a3

RGB

0, 146, 163

OKLCh

60.4% 0.104 209.2°

CIELAB (D50)

54.9, -29.1, -18.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 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 64.2; on black, Lc -37.5. 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 25.1 and 25.1 and 29.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.72:1 — large text only

Black text

5.64:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.64:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#008392 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

#0092a3

protanopia

#8a8aa3 · ΔE00 25.1

deuteranopia

#7c7ca4 · ΔE00 25.1

tritanopia

#6b6bff · ΔE00 29.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTile Blue at ΔE00 0.679: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Tile BlueΔE00 0.679 · #0094a5
  • JadedΔE00 0.713 · #0092a1
  • BrilliantΔE00 0.966 · #0094a7
  • Coral CoastΔE00 1.403 · #068e9e
  • Safe HarbourΔE00 1.902 · #1e8ea1
  • Parrot FlightΔE00 2.053 · #018da1
  • Aquarium DiverΔE00 2.304 · #0a98ac
  • ScooterΔE00 2.577 · #308ea0
  • Tropical LagoonΔE00 3.003 · #1e98ae
  • Aqua LakeΔE00 3.003 · #30949d
  • Aqua DanceΔE00 3.005 · #3896a7
  • WaikikiΔE00 3.197 · #218ba0

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