Spearmint
#64bfa4
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#64bfa4
RGB
100, 191, 164
OKLCh
74.1% 0.097 172.0°
CIELAB (D50)
71.2, -33.5, 4.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.2; on black, Lc -59.0. 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 20.6 and 21.9 and 36.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.53:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.53:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#23856d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#64bfa4
protanopia
#b8b8a4 · ΔE00 20.6
deuteranopia
#ababa6 · ΔE00 21.9
tritanopia
#9b9bff · ΔE00 36.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeppermint Fresh at ΔE00 1.352: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Peppermint FreshΔE00 1.352 · #64be9f
- Mint Cold GreenΔE00 1.693 · #6cbba0
- SainsburyΔE00 2.12 · #66b89c
- Puerto RicoΔE00 2.166 · #59baa3
- Blue EnergyΔE00 2.169 · #6dc1ac
- ArboretumΔE00 2.39 · #70ba9f
- Shoreline GreenΔE00 2.428 · #58c6ab
- KeppelΔE00 2.437 · #5fb69c
- Biscay GreenΔE00 2.511 · #55c6a9
- KauaiΔE00 2.539 · #5ac7ac
- Jolt of JadeΔE00 2.637 · #4abca0
- ShylockΔE00 2.68 · #5ab9a4
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.