HueComb

Arabica Mint

#c0ffee

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

#c0ffee

RGB

192, 255, 238

OKLCh

95.3% 0.067 176.4°

CIELAB (D50)

95.4, -23.0, 1.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -99.5. 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 18.1 and 19.4 and 25.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.12:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.78:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.78:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#458173 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

#c0ffee

protanopia

#f9f9ee · ΔE00 18.1

deuteranopia

#efefef · ΔE00 19.4

tritanopia

#e3e3ff · ΔE00 25.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSummer Cloud at ΔE00 0.882: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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