Enchanted Well
#3994af
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#3994af
RGB
57, 148, 175
OKLCh
62.4% 0.094 221.0°
CIELAB (D50)
56.8, -21.3, -22.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.1; on black, Lc -39.6. 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 22.6 and 22.0 and 22.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.48:1 — large text only
Black text
6.03:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.03:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#20819b 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
#3994af
protanopia
#8d8daf · ΔE00 22.6
deuteranopia
#8282b0 · ΔE00 22.0
tritanopia
#7373ff · ΔE00 22.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Moon at ΔE00 1.766: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Blue MoonΔE00 1.766 · #3992a8
- Bondi BlueΔE00 2.409 · #0095b6
- Sports BlueΔE00 2.435 · #399bb4
- PelorusΔE00 2.496 · #2599b2
- Butterfly BlueΔE00 2.509 · #2099bb
- Serene BlueΔE00 2.687 · #1199bb
- Kelp’thar Forest BlueΔE00 2.694 · #0092ae
- SailfishΔE00 2.767 · #2e9cbb
- Cool TideΔE00 2.817 · #0091b3
- Cape PondΔE00 2.824 · #0092ad
- Boston BlueΔE00 2.824 · #438eac
- Alpine LakeΔE00 2.882 · #4598ab
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.