HueComb

Vibrant Mint

#00ffe5

A cyan that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#00ffe5

RGB

0, 255, 229

OKLCh

89.7% 0.161 182.0°

CIELAB (D50)

90.1, -56.2, -2.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • 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 13.0; on black, Lc -90.9. 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 25.9 and 28.4 and 36.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.28:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.44:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.44:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#008677 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

#00ffe5

protanopia

#f2f2e4 · ΔE00 25.9

deuteranopia

#dbdbe8 · ΔE00 28.4

tritanopia

#bdbdff · ΔE00 36.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIce Ice Baby at ΔE00 2.164: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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