Emerald Bliss
#4cbdac
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#4cbdac
RGB
76, 189, 172
OKLCh
72.9% 0.105 181.7°
CIELAB (D50)
69.9, -36.6, -1.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.8; on black, Lc -57.3. 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 22.7 and 25.2 and 35.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.29:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008677 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
#4cbdac
protanopia
#b5b5ac · ΔE00 22.7
deuteranopia
#a6a6ae · ΔE00 25.2
tritanopia
#9393ff · ΔE00 35.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreen Fluorite at ΔE00 1.012: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Green FluoriteΔE00 1.012 · #55bbaa
- Florida KeysΔE00 1.196 · #56beab
- SynergyΔE00 1.37 · #48c2b0
- Mountain Lake AzureΔE00 1.424 · #4cbca7
- Treasured TealΔE00 1.606 · #52c1b3
- Tropical EscapeΔE00 1.768 · #4dbbaf
- Melbourne CupΔE00 2.167 · #45c3ad
- Pure CyanΔE00 2.331 · #36bfa8
- TealishΔE00 2.468 · #24bca8
- ShylockΔE00 2.49 · #5ab9a4
- Bath TurquoiseΔE00 2.541 · #62baa8
- Tint of TurquoiseΔE00 2.726 · #41bfb5
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.