Viking
#4db1c8
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#4db1c8
RGB
77, 177, 200
OKLCh
71.0% 0.098 215.4°
CIELAB (D50)
67.0, -25.1, -21.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.6; on black, Lc -53.3. 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 23.9 and 23.5 and 24.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.49:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.44:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.44:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#068298 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
#4db1c8
protanopia
#a9a9c8 · ΔE00 23.9
deuteranopia
#9c9cc9 · ΔE00 23.5
tritanopia
#8b8bff · ΔE00 24.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Bobbin at ΔE00 0.946: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blue BobbinΔE00 0.946 · #52b4ca
- FountainΔE00 1.393 · #56b5ca
- Water BabyΔE00 1.575 · #5ab5cb
- GondolierΔE00 1.596 · #5db1c5
- Teal MoiréΔE00 1.693 · #50b7cf
- Liquid BlueΔE00 1.769 · #55b7ce
- River BlueΔE00 2.193 · #38afcd
- Blue MistΔE00 2.228 · #5bacc3
- Aqua VerdeΔE00 2.268 · #56b3c3
- GlimpseΔE00 2.347 · #4fb9ce
- AquariusΔE00 2.385 · #2db0ce
- SantoriniΔE00 2.559 · #41b0d0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.