Hammam Blue
#65dcd6
A cyan that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#65dcd6
RGB
101, 220, 214
OKLCh
82.5% 0.107 190.8°
CIELAB (D50)
80.9, -36.1, -7.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.4; on black, Lc -74.5. 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 24.4 and 26.2 and 31.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.65:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.76:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.76:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008581 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#65dcd6
protanopia
#d3d3d6 · ΔE00 24.4
deuteranopia
#c3c3d8 · ΔE00 26.2
tritanopia
#afafff · ΔE00 31.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPluviophile at ΔE00 2.093: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- PluviophileΔE00 2.093 · #66dddd
- Near MoonΔE00 2.657 · #5ee7df
- Aqua ZingΔE00 3.027 · #7cd8d6
- Hidden Sea GlassΔE00 3.045 · #6fd1c9
- Turquoise ChalkΔE00 3.15 · #6fe7db
- Medium TurquoiseΔE00 3.249 · #48d1cc
- Isle RoyaleΔE00 3.313 · #80d7cf
- Island SeaΔE00 3.36 · #81d7d0
- Andes SkyΔE00 3.403 · #78d8d9
- Blue Crystal LandscapeΔE00 3.422 · #6febe3
- Water WingsΔE00 3.729 · #80d5cc
- Water WonderΔE00 3.763 · #80d4d0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.