Harbour Mist
#88aaaa
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
#88aaaa
RGB
136, 170, 170
OKLCh
71.3% 0.037 196.3°
CIELAB (D50)
67.1, -12.0, -4.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 31% 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 49.2; on black, Lc -52.8. 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 13.6 and 14.8 and 23.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.51:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5c7d7d 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
#88aaaa
protanopia
#a7a7aa · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#a1a1ab · ΔE00 14.8
tritanopia
#9a9af0 · ΔE00 23.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHydrology at ΔE00 0.601: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- HydrologyΔE00 0.601 · #89acac
- Shallow Water GroundΔE00 1.447 · #8caeac
- Venus TealΔE00 2.039 · #85a4a2
- Bon VoyageΔE00 2.13 · #8baeb2
- Jitterbug LureΔE00 2.151 · #8db0ad
- Acapulco AquaΔE00 2.18 · #7fa8a7
- ZigguratΔE00 2.22 · #81a6aa
- OceanusΔE00 2.401 · #90aba8
- UnderseaΔE00 2.441 · #90b1ae
- Gulf WindsΔE00 2.657 · #93b2b2
- Calcite BlueΔE00 2.819 · #94b2b2
- Lake WaterΔE00 2.824 · #86aba5
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.