Blue Eye Samurai
#75aebd
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
#75aebd
RGB
117, 174, 189
OKLCh
71.7% 0.063 216.1°
CIELAB (D50)
67.6, -16.4, -13.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.3; on black, Lc -53.7. 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 19.5 and 20.2 and 20.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.46:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#467f8d 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
#75aebd
protanopia
#a9a9bd · ΔE00 19.5
deuteranopia
#a0a0be · ΔE00 20.2
tritanopia
#9595ff · ΔE00 20.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGlacier at ΔE00 0.94: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- GlacierΔE00 0.94 · #78b1bf
- Watson LakeΔE00 1.234 · #74aeba
- Water MusicΔE00 1.574 · #6fb0be
- SnowboardΔE00 1.623 · #74a9b9
- FlotationΔE00 1.943 · #7bb0ba
- November SkiesΔE00 1.943 · #7cafb9
- Milky BlueΔE00 2.168 · #72a8ba
- Tennis BlueΔE00 2.186 · #7cb5c6
- HeavenlyΔE00 2.524 · #7eb2c5
- Blue ChiffonΔE00 2.655 · #70a6b8
- Open SeasΔE00 2.658 · #83afbc
- Riverside BlueΔE00 2.697 · #6cb4c3
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.