Misty Cold Sea
#83bbc1
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
#83bbc1
RGB
131, 187, 193
OKLCh
75.5% 0.059 204.4°
CIELAB (D50)
72.2, -17.8, -9.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 41.8; on black, Lc -60.4. 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 18.9 and 20.3 and 23.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.13:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.84:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.84:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#487f85 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
#83bbc1
protanopia
#b6b6c1 · ΔE00 18.9
deuteranopia
#adadc2 · ΔE00 20.3
tritanopia
#a2a2ff · ΔE00 23.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoastal Fringe at ΔE00 0.701: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Coastal FringeΔE00 0.701 · #80b9c0
- CuttlefishΔE00 0.75 · #7fbbc2
- Warm WatersΔE00 0.91 · #7ebbc2
- WaterwayΔE00 1.359 · #7eb7bf
- Lifeboat BlueΔE00 1.386 · #81b6bc
- Aqua BlueΔE00 1.854 · #79b6bc
- Aqua VitaleΔE00 1.991 · #7bbdc7
- CelestineΔE00 2.078 · #85c1c4
- Culinary BlueΔE00 2.368 · #7bb6c1
- Pure TurquoiseΔE00 2.379 · #7abec2
- RiverbedΔE00 2.518 · #86bebe
- Chuff BlueΔE00 2.529 · #91c1c6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.