HueComb

Breaking the Ice

#b8e4f5

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

#b8e4f5

RGB

184, 228, 245

OKLCh

89.3% 0.051 223.4°

CIELAB (D50)

87.9, -12.0, -13.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.6; on black, Lc -86.0. 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 16.4 and 17.1 and 17.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.36:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.45:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.45:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#547d8c 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

#b8e4f5

protanopia

#e0e0f5 · ΔE00 16.4

deuteranopia

#d8d8f6 · ΔE00 17.1

tritanopia

#d0d0ff · ΔE00 17.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPolar Wind at ΔE00 1.548: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.