Teal With It
#01697a
A cyan that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#01697a
RGB
1, 105, 122
OKLCh
47.9% 0.084 213.9°
CIELAB (D50)
40.1, -21.6, -17.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- 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 81.1; on black, Lc -20.8. 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 22.8 and 22.8 and 24.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.36:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.30:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.36:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#01697a
protanopia
#63637a · ΔE00 22.8
deuteranopia
#59597b · ΔE00 22.8
tritanopia
#4c4cce · ΔE00 24.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCaribbean Splash at ΔE00 0.774: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Caribbean SplashΔE00 0.774 · #00697c
- Bankson LakeΔE00 1.239 · #016876
- Shinbashi AzureΔE00 1.241 · #006c7f
- Porpoise PlaceΔE00 1.318 · #076a7e
- Cotton IndigoΔE00 1.552 · #066976
- Mary BlueΔE00 1.696 · #006a77
- Green SpoolΔE00 1.718 · #006474
- Coastal JettyΔE00 1.724 · #006e7f
- Azure Green BlueΔE00 1.788 · #006c81
- Crystal TealΔE00 1.836 · #006e81
- Atlantis MythΔE00 1.931 · #006477
- StrikingΔE00 1.934 · #00667b
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.