Seaborn
#85c2b2
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
#85c2b2
RGB
133, 194, 178
OKLCh
76.8% 0.067 176.2°
CIELAB (D50)
73.9, -23.1, 1.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 39.3; on black, Lc -63.0. 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 18.2 and 19.4 and 31.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.03:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#468173 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
#85c2b2
protanopia
#bcbcb2 · ΔE00 18.2
deuteranopia
#b3b3b3 · ΔE00 19.4
tritanopia
#a8a8ff · ΔE00 31.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHoliday at ΔE00 0.981: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- HolidayΔE00 0.981 · #81c3b4
- AquastoneΔE00 1.149 · #89c6b7
- Ocean WaveΔE00 1.926 · #7dbcaa
- Catarina GreenΔE00 1.959 · #90c4b4
- Tranquil TealΔE00 2.051 · #8ac7bb
- Little Blue BoxΔE00 2.103 · #8ac5ba
- Monte CarloΔE00 2.208 · #7ac5b4
- Peppermint BarΔE00 2.257 · #81bca8
- MintnightΔE00 2.272 · #7cbbae
- MintageΔE00 2.391 · #78bfb2
- Patina HueΔE00 2.435 · #83baa8
- Pale JadeΔE00 2.471 · #77c3b4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.