Pastel Turquoise
#99c5c4
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
#99c5c4
RGB
153, 197, 196
OKLCh
79.2% 0.046 194.5°
CIELAB (D50)
76.4, -15.2, -4.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% 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 35.8; on black, Lc -66.7. 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 15.8 and 17.3 and 24.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.14:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.14:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#547e7d 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
#99c5c4
protanopia
#c1c1c4 · ΔE00 15.8
deuteranopia
#babac5 · ΔE00 17.3
tritanopia
#b1b1ff · ΔE00 24.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFavourite Sweater at ΔE00 0.881: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Favourite SweaterΔE00 0.881 · #9bc4c4
- RaindropΔE00 1.202 · #9ec6c6
- Bleu NattierΔE00 1.68 · #9cc2bf
- Aqua MistΔE00 1.986 · #a0c9cb
- Pitter PatterΔE00 2.064 · #9bc2bd
- Cabana BayΔE00 2.072 · #8ec1c0
- Chinese TzuΔE00 2.088 · #8fbfbd
- Ice Boutique TurquoiseΔE00 2.13 · #a2cdcb
- Eggshell BlueΔE00 2.173 · #a3ccc9
- Blithe BlueΔE00 2.21 · #90bdbd
- MysteryΔE00 2.315 · #a4cdcc
- Turner’s LightΔE00 2.357 · #93bcbb
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.