Mediterranean Sea
#1e8cab
A cyan that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#1e8cab
RGB
30, 140, 171
OKLCh
59.6% 0.103 222.4°
CIELAB (D50)
53.6, -22.3, -25.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 93% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.9; on black, Lc -35.7. 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 23.1 and 22.5 and 23.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.89:1 — large text only
Black text
5.39:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.39:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#0581a0 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
#1e8cab
protanopia
#8585ab · ΔE00 23.1
deuteranopia
#7878ac · ΔE00 22.5
tritanopia
#6868ff · ΔE00 23.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlgiers Blue at ΔE00 1.134: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Algiers BlueΔE00 1.134 · #008db0
- QuintanaΔE00 1.378 · #008ca9
- Corfu WatersΔE00 1.394 · #008aad
- Capri BreezeΔE00 1.481 · #0089a8
- Cool TideΔE00 1.868 · #0091b3
- CarolΔE00 1.879 · #338dae
- Tiny BubblesΔE00 1.916 · #0088ab
- ZeftronΔE00 1.92 · #0090ad
- Caribbean SeaΔE00 2.054 · #0087a7
- Hacienda BlueΔE00 2.065 · #0087a8
- Kelp’thar Forest BlueΔE00 2.619 · #0092ae
- Magic BlueΔE00 2.625 · #3e8baa
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.