HueComb

Glacial Drift

#c3fbf4

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

#c3fbf4

RGB

195, 251, 244

OKLCh

94.8% 0.057 186.8°

CIELAB (D50)

94.6, -19.4, -2.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -98.1. 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 17.4 and 19.3 and 22.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.14:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.43:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.43:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4b807a 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

#c3fbf4

protanopia

#f6f6f4 · ΔE00 17.4

deuteranopia

#ececf5 · ΔE00 19.3

tritanopia

#e2e2ff · ΔE00 22.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrushed Ice at ΔE00 0.963: 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.