Paradise Island
#5aa7a0
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#5aa7a0
RGB
90, 167, 160
OKLCh
67.7% 0.077 187.9°
CIELAB (D50)
63.4, -26.3, -4.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.9; on black, Lc -47.9. 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 20.6 and 23.2 and 32.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.81:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#34837c 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
#5aa7a0
protanopia
#a1a1a0 · ΔE00 20.6
deuteranopia
#9696a1 · ΔE00 23.2
tritanopia
#8888ff · ΔE00 32.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDragon Bay at ΔE00 1.303: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dragon BayΔE00 1.303 · #5da99f
- VerandaΔE00 1.631 · #61a9a5
- Aqua RapidsΔE00 1.995 · #63a39c
- Twilight MeadowΔE00 2.545 · #51a5a4
- Teal BayouΔE00 2.92 · #57a1a0
- Emerald SucculentΔE00 2.956 · #55aaaa
- Tourmaline TurquoiseΔE00 3.01 · #4f9e96
- Bahaman BlissΔE00 3.11 · #3fa49b
- Artesian WellΔE00 3.191 · #5eb2aa
- Turquoise FantasiesΔE00 3.26 · #6dafa7
- Folk SongΔE00 3.445 · #65a19f
- Caulerpa LentilliferaΔE00 3.711 · #599c99
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.