Cabbage
#87d7be
A cyan that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#87d7be
RGB
135, 215, 190
OKLCh
82.0% 0.087 172.2°
CIELAB (D50)
80.3, -29.9, 4.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.7; on black, Lc -73.2. 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 19.8 and 21.1 and 32.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.68:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.49:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.49:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#32846e 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
#87d7be
protanopia
#d0d0be · ΔE00 19.8
deuteranopia
#c4c4c0 · ΔE00 21.1
tritanopia
#b5b5ff · ΔE00 32.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPearl Aqua at ΔE00 0.425: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pearl AquaΔE00 0.425 · #88d8c0
- Ice GreenΔE00 1.406 · #87d8c3
- Mint MajestyΔE00 1.649 · #7dd7c0
- Monet VertΔE00 1.659 · #92dbc4
- Lavish GreenΔE00 1.836 · #7ed0b7
- ChlorideΔE00 1.843 · #93d8c2
- Apple II BlueΔE00 1.944 · #93d6bf
- Green ParakeetΔE00 1.987 · #7bd5bf
- Fresh MistΔE00 2.07 · #83d9c5
- Clean GreenΔE00 2.13 · #8fe0c6
- Tender TurquoiseΔE00 2.143 · #82d9c5
- Tropical TrailΔE00 2.158 · #89d1b5
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.