Water Leaf
#b6ecde
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
#b6ecde
RGB
182, 236, 222
OKLCh
90.2% 0.058 177.3°
CIELAB (D50)
89.4, -20.0, 0.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% 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 15.3; on black, Lc -88.5. 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 16.9 and 18.1 and 25.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.31:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.04:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.04:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4d8074 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
#b6ecde
protanopia
#e7e7de · ΔE00 16.9
deuteranopia
#dededf · ΔE00 18.1
tritanopia
#d4d4ff · ΔE00 25.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGentle Giant at ΔE00 1.227: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Gentle GiantΔE00 1.227 · #b3ebe0
- East CapeΔE00 1.758 · #b0eee2
- Mint TeaΔE00 1.775 · #afeee1
- SalomeΔE00 1.776 · #bbeddb
- Aquatic MistΔE00 1.918 · #ade6db
- Ice CubeΔE00 1.989 · #afe3d6
- Fresh BreezeΔE00 2.009 · #beeddc
- Ode to GreenΔE00 2.029 · #b6e5d6
- Ice Cap GreenΔE00 2.258 · #b9e7dd
- Barely AquaΔE00 2.289 · #bae9e0
- Aqua OasisΔE00 2.366 · #bce8dd
- Capri Water BlueΔE00 2.393 · #abe2d6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.