Ninja Turtle
#94b1a9
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
#94b1a9
RGB
148, 177, 169
OKLCh
73.6% 0.034 176.8°
CIELAB (D50)
69.8, -11.5, 0.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 25% 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 45.4; on black, Lc -56.7. 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 11.8 and 12.6 and 25.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.12:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.12:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#617c75 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
#94b1a9
protanopia
#aeaea9 · ΔE00 11.8
deuteranopia
#a9a9aa · ΔE00 12.6
tritanopia
#a4a4eb · ΔE00 25.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDelicate Green at ΔE00 0.505: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Delicate GreenΔE00 0.505 · #93b0a9
- Vintage VesselΔE00 1.674 · #94b2a6
- Silver DropΔE00 1.748 · #9ab2a9
- Lovage GreenΔE00 1.824 · #98b1a6
- TiamoΔE00 2.028 · #9bb2aa
- Tropical BayΔE00 2.099 · #9db7af
- DonnegalΔE00 2.248 · #8caea3
- Lake ForestΔE00 2.38 · #96b4b1
- Opal SilkΔE00 2.392 · #9db9b2
- Rare HappeningΔE00 2.415 · #8daca0
- ScepticΔE00 2.43 · #9db4aa
- UnderseaΔE00 2.434 · #90b1ae
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.