Summer of ’82
#74cdd8
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#74cdd8
RGB
116, 205, 216
OKLCh
79.7% 0.087 205.9°
CIELAB (D50)
77.2, -25.8, -14.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 34.1; on black, Lc -68.4. 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 23.7 and 24.0 and 25.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.83:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#21828d 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
#74cdd8
protanopia
#c5c5d8 · ΔE00 23.7
deuteranopia
#b9b9d9 · ΔE00 24.0
tritanopia
#a9a9ff · ΔE00 25.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSlick Blue at ΔE00 0.423: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Slick BlueΔE00 0.423 · #73ccd8
- ValoniaΔE00 1.541 · #79c9d1
- Beach SparkleΔE00 1.576 · #71cbd2
- Sea of TranquillityΔE00 1.706 · #81d1da
- Aqua BeltΔE00 1.944 · #7acad0
- Salt LakeΔE00 2.005 · #74c6d3
- BetsyΔE00 2.059 · #73c9d9
- Lagoona TealΔE00 2.108 · #76c6d3
- Paradise SkyΔE00 2.228 · #66c6d0
- Throat ChakraΔE00 2.365 · #6aced4
- White UltramarineΔE00 2.393 · #83ccd2
- Water NymphΔE00 2.421 · #81d0df
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.