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Spotless Bahamas

#63dcee
Notes

Spotless Bahamas (#63DCEE) is a true cyan with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (188°, 80%, 66%) places it in the highly saturated band at a mid lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#63dcee
RGB
rgb(99, 220, 238)
HSL
hsl(188, 80%, 66%)
HWB
hwb(188 39% 7%)
OKLCH
oklch(83.2% 0.110 208.5)
HSV
hsv(188, 58%, 93%)
LAB
lab(81.84% -28.70 -19.02)
LCH
lch(81.84% 34.43 213.53)
CMYK
cmyk(58%, 8%, 0%, 7%)

Etymology

Spotless
adjective

Old English spott (spot) plus suffix -less. As a color modifier, spotless implies a clear-and-unmarked quality where the hue carries no contaminating speck or stain. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to pristine and unblemished in usage.

Bahamas
noun

The Atlantic archipelago — and the saturated turquoise of Bahamian Pink Sands Beach shallows at Harbour Island and the cyan-blue of Exuma Cays lagoon water. Bahamas color refers to a Bahamian shallow-water lagoon at midday: a saturated, slightly cool bright blue-green with the optical clarity of warm Caribbean water.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#63dcee
Original
#cbd4ef
Protanopia
#b6c5ee
Deuteranopia
#00e5e1
Tritanopia
#c4c4c4
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon White
1.62:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
13.00:1

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