Cuttlefish
#7fbbc2
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
#7fbbc2
RGB
127, 187, 194
OKLCh
75.4% 0.063 205.1°
CIELAB (D50)
72.0, -18.8, -10.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.0; on black, Lc -60.2. 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 19.7 and 21.1 and 23.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.15:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.79:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.79:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#458086 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
#7fbbc2
protanopia
#b6b6c2 · ΔE00 19.7
deuteranopia
#acacc3 · ΔE00 21.1
tritanopia
#a1a1ff · ΔE00 23.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWarm Waters at ΔE00 0.181: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Warm WatersΔE00 0.181 · #7ebbc2
- Coastal FringeΔE00 0.689 · #80b9c0
- Misty Cold SeaΔE00 0.75 · #83bbc1
- WaterwayΔE00 1.227 · #7eb7bf
- Aqua VitaleΔE00 1.348 · #7bbdc7
- Aqua BlueΔE00 1.536 · #79b6bc
- Lifeboat BlueΔE00 1.676 · #81b6bc
- Tibetan StoneΔE00 1.935 · #74b7c1
- Pure TurquoiseΔE00 2.014 · #7abec2
- Culinary BlueΔE00 2.07 · #7bb6c1
- Tropez BlueΔE00 2.19 · #73b7c2
- Azure LakeΔE00 2.191 · #7bbbc8
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.