HueComb

Break the Ice

#b2e1ee

A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#b2e1ee

RGB

178, 225, 238

OKLCh

88.1% 0.052 216.5°

CIELAB (D50)

86.5, -13.6, -11.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.8; on black, Lc -83.7. 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 17.0 and 18.1 and 19.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.41:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.90:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.90:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#517d89 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#b2e1ee

protanopia

#dcdcee · ΔE00 17.0

deuteranopia

#d5d5ef · ΔE00 18.1

tritanopia

#ccccff · ΔE00 19.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrystal River at ΔE00 0.69: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.