Teal Me No Lies
#0daca7
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#0daca7
RGB
13, 172, 167
OKLCh
67.3% 0.114 191.1°
CIELAB (D50)
63.3, -38.4, -8.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 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 53.4; on black, Lc -48.4. 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 25.1 and 26.7 and 35.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.81:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.48:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.48:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008581 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#0daca7
protanopia
#a3a3a7 · ΔE00 25.1
deuteranopia
#9393a9 · ΔE00 26.7
tritanopia
#7f7fff · ΔE00 35.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTropical Tree at ΔE00 1.02: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tropical TreeΔE00 1.02 · #20aea7
- Laguna GreenΔE00 1.826 · #01b1af
- Jade OrchidΔE00 1.844 · #00aaaa
- JadestoneΔE00 1.885 · #01a6a0
- Blue IslandΔE00 2.022 · #22aaaa
- Glass Jar BlueΔE00 2.046 · #20b2aa
- CozumelΔE00 2.229 · #0aafa4
- Royal CloakΔE00 2.303 · #16a5a3
- Tropical HideawayΔE00 2.374 · #17a99e
- FijiΔE00 2.528 · #00aaac
- Greenland GreenΔE00 2.676 · #22acae
- Silken JadeΔE00 2.7 · #11a39e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.