Teal
#008080
A cyan that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#008080
RGB
0, 128, 128
OKLCh
54.3% 0.093 194.8°
CIELAB (D50)
48.0, -30.4, -9.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 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 72.6; on black, Lc -29.1. 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 24.0 and 25.3 and 33.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.77:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.40:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.77:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#008080
protanopia
#797980 · ΔE00 24.0
deuteranopia
#6d6d81 · ΔE00 25.3
tritanopia
#5d5def · ΔE00 33.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWindows 95 Desktop at ΔE00 0.816: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Windows 95 DesktopΔE00 0.816 · #018281
- Belly FlopΔE00 0.868 · #00817f
- Marine TealΔE00 1.094 · #008383
- ParasailingΔE00 1.178 · #007d7c
- FanfareΔE00 1.183 · #008384
- Pond BathΔE00 1.377 · #00827f
- Tropical WatersΔE00 1.633 · #007c7e
- Bay TealΔE00 1.701 · #018486
- Milky AquamarineΔE00 1.948 · #038487
- Buzzards BayΔE00 2.217 · #017a79
- Navajo TurquoiseΔE00 2.234 · #007c78
- Jade JewelΔE00 2.264 · #247e81
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.