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#007c76

A cyan that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#007c76

RGB

0, 124, 118

OKLCh

52.9% 0.092 188.9°

CIELAB (D50)

46.4, -31.2, -5.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 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 74.4; on black, Lc -27.3. 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 22.6 and 25.0 and 35.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.07:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.14:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.07:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#007c76

protanopia

#757576 · ΔE00 22.6

deuteranopia

#696977 · ΔE00 25.0

tritanopia

#5a5ae6 · ΔE00 35.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEmperor Jade at ΔE00 0.358: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Emperor JadeΔE00 0.358 · #007b75
  • Romantic IsleΔE00 0.404 · #007c75
  • Navajo TurquoiseΔE00 0.812 · #007c78
  • Hydra TurquoiseΔE00 0.849 · #007a73
  • Surfie GreenΔE00 0.865 · #007b77
  • Coelia GreenshadeΔE00 1.22 · #0e7f78
  • Autumn Pine GreenΔE00 1.769 · #158078
  • IvyΔE00 1.957 · #277b74
  • Pond MossΔE00 2.008 · #01796f
  • Mermaid HarbourΔE00 2.014 · #00776f
  • Geneva GreenΔE00 2.015 · #1f7f76
  • ParasailingΔE00 2.088 · #007d7c

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