Verdigris
#43b3ae
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#43b3ae
RGB
67, 179, 174
OKLCh
70.3% 0.100 191.0°
CIELAB (D50)
66.6, -33.7, -7.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 49.3; on black, Lc -52.6. 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 23.9 and 25.8 and 33.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.53:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.30:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.30:1. 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
#43b3ae
protanopia
#ababae · ΔE00 23.9
deuteranopia
#9d9db0 · ΔE00 25.8
tritanopia
#8a8aff · ΔE00 33.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreen Grapple at ΔE00 1.829: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Green GrappleΔE00 1.829 · #3db9b2
- Island MomentΔE00 1.898 · #3fb2a8
- Emerald WaveΔE00 2.088 · #4fb3a9
- Message GreenΔE00 2.113 · #37b8af
- Caicos TurquoiseΔE00 2.174 · #26b7b5
- Crystalsong BlueΔE00 2.214 · #4fb3b3
- Glass Jar BlueΔE00 2.297 · #20b2aa
- Lake Tahoe TurquoiseΔE00 2.34 · #34b1b2
- SwaggerΔE00 2.52 · #19b6b5
- Magnetic MagicΔE00 2.572 · #3fbbb2
- Tropical TreeΔE00 2.634 · #20aea7
- Laguna GreenΔE00 2.744 · #01b1af
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.