Pine Scented Lagoon
#066f6c
A cyan that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#066f6c
RGB
6, 111, 108
OKLCh
49.0% 0.083 191.5°
CIELAB (D50)
41.8, -27.8, -6.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.5; on black, Lc -22.3. 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 22.2 and 24.3 and 32.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.00:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.50:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.00:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#066f6c
protanopia
#69696c · ΔE00 22.2
deuteranopia
#5e5e6d · ΔE00 24.3
tritanopia
#5151cf · ΔE00 32.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBoating Green at ΔE00 1.13: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Boating GreenΔE00 1.13 · #087170
- Ocean OasisΔE00 1.167 · #006c68
- Tide PoolsΔE00 1.263 · #0a6f69
- Caribbean CurrentΔE00 1.294 · #006e6e
- Green DragonΔE00 1.406 · #006c67
- ReefΔE00 1.461 · #017371
- Chitin GreenΔE00 1.467 · #026b67
- Artisan GreenΔE00 1.796 · #117471
- Mosaic TileΔE00 1.89 · #1c6b69
- Office Blue GreenΔE00 2.069 · #006c65
- Chinese GardenΔE00 2.076 · #006967
- Mayan BlueΔE00 2.138 · #006b6c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.