Bevelled Glass
#7accb8
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#7accb8
RGB
122, 204, 184
OKLCh
78.7% 0.086 176.6°
CIELAB (D50)
76.4, -29.7, 1.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.6; on black, Lc -66.9. 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 20.5 and 22.0 and 32.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.88:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.16:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.16:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#2f8472 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
#7accb8
protanopia
#c5c5b8 · ΔE00 20.5
deuteranopia
#b9b9ba · ΔE00 22.0
tritanopia
#aaaaff · ΔE00 32.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJolly Jade at ΔE00 1.185: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Jolly JadeΔE00 1.185 · #77ccbb
- Meridian StarΔE00 1.419 · #7bc8b2
- PuppeteersΔE00 1.657 · #79ccb3
- Lavish GreenΔE00 1.897 · #7ed0b7
- ShockwaveΔE00 1.905 · #72c8b8
- Monte CarloΔE00 1.972 · #7ac5b4
- Blue FrostingΔE00 2.17 · #86d2c1
- Green ParakeetΔE00 2.244 · #7bd5bf
- DownyΔE00 2.275 · #6fd2be
- Pale TealΔE00 2.364 · #82cbb2
- Seafoam BlueΔE00 2.415 · #78d1b6
- Hawaiian VacationΔE00 2.526 · #77cabd
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.