Japanese Bonsai
#829f96
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
#829f96
RGB
130, 159, 150
OKLCh
67.8% 0.035 174.4°
CIELAB (D50)
63.1, -11.9, 1.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 27% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.7; on black, Lc -47.1. 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 11.9 and 12.6 and 26.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.86:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.35:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.35:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#617d74 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
#829f96
protanopia
#9c9c96 · ΔE00 11.9
deuteranopia
#979797 · ΔE00 12.6
tritanopia
#9292d7 · ΔE00 26.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMountain Outlook at ΔE00 1.004: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mountain OutlookΔE00 1.004 · #7f9f97
- Padded LeafΔE00 1.35 · #859e94
- Meek Moss GreenΔE00 1.554 · #869f98
- GnomeΔE00 1.656 · #81a19b
- SutherlandΔE00 1.661 · #859d95
- Australian JadeΔE00 1.743 · #84a194
- VizcayaΔE00 2.241 · #7b9e98
- Blue SurfΔE00 2.345 · #829d99
- Modern MintΔE00 2.532 · #88a395
- Poppy LeafΔE00 2.588 · #88a496
- BeckettΔE00 2.684 · #85a699
- AvalonΔE00 2.716 · #799b96
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.