HueComb

Cold Wave

#c2e2e3

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

#c2e2e3

RGB

194, 226, 227

OKLCh

89.0% 0.034 198.9°

CIELAB (D50)

87.6, -10.7, -4.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 34 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 only 23% 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 18.3; on black, Lc -85.3. 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 12.7 and 13.8 and 19.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.37:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.28:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.28:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5f7c7d 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

#c2e2e3

protanopia

#dfdfe3 · ΔE00 12.7

deuteranopia

#d9d9e4 · ΔE00 13.8

tritanopia

#d3d3ff · ΔE00 19.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCold Well Water at ΔE00 0.286: 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.