HueComb

Ambrosial Oceanside

#47ae9c

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

Hex

#47ae9c

RGB

71, 174, 156

OKLCh

68.6% 0.099 179.8°

CIELAB (D50)

64.8, -34.5, -0.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.0; on black, Lc -49.9. 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 22.1 and 24.3 and 36.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.69:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#0a8675 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#47ae9c

protanopia

#a6a69c · ΔE00 22.1

deuteranopia

#99999e · ΔE00 24.3

tritanopia

#8888ff · ΔE00 36.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWater Park at ΔE00 1.412: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.