HueComb

Mint Coffee

#ccffee

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

#ccffee

RGB

204, 255, 238

OKLCh

96.0% 0.057 172.7°

CIELAB (D50)

96.1, -19.3, 2.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • 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 -100.7. 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 16.1 and 17.0 and 23.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.10:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.11:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.11:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#518071 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

#ccffee

protanopia

#fafaee · ΔE00 16.1

deuteranopia

#f2f2ef · ΔE00 17.0

tritanopia

#e8e8ff · ΔE00 23.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArabica Mint at ΔE00 2.382: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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