Fresh Breeze
#beeddc
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
#beeddc
RGB
190, 237, 220
OKLCh
90.8% 0.054 171.0°
CIELAB (D50)
90.1, -18.2, 3.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 38% 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 14.1; on black, Lc -89.7. 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 15.4 and 16.3 and 25.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.29:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.34:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.34:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#547f71 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
#beeddc
protanopia
#e8e8dc · ΔE00 15.4
deuteranopia
#e1e1dd · ΔE00 16.3
tritanopia
#d8d8ff · ΔE00 25.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSalome at ΔE00 0.711: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- SalomeΔE00 0.711 · #bbeddb
- Mediterranean MistΔE00 1.225 · #bce9d6
- Mint IceΔE00 1.307 · #bde8d8
- Seafoam PearlΔE00 1.692 · #c2ecd8
- Elephant ToothpasteΔE00 1.816 · #c0e8d8
- Ode to GreenΔE00 1.887 · #b6e5d6
- Water LeafΔE00 2.009 · #b6ecde
- Aero BlueΔE00 2.076 · #c0e8d5
- MaypoleΔE00 2.181 · #bee8d3
- Shallow EndΔE00 2.304 · #c5f5e8
- Aqua OasisΔE00 2.375 · #bce8dd
- Summer HouseΔE00 2.416 · #c8efe2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.