Emerald Oasis
#67a195
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#67a195
RGB
103, 161, 149
OKLCh
66.5% 0.064 179.7°
CIELAB (D50)
62.0, -21.9, -0.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.0; on black, Lc -45.8. 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 18.1 and 19.6 and 32.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.95:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.11:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.11:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#478176 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
#67a195
protanopia
#9c9c95 · ΔE00 18.1
deuteranopia
#939396 · ΔE00 19.6
tritanopia
#8888fb · ΔE00 32.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJade Dragon at ΔE00 0.998: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Jade DragonΔE00 0.998 · #6aa193
- Treasure IsleΔE00 1.534 · #609d91
- Dull TealΔE00 1.868 · #5f9e8f
- Goose Pond GreenΔE00 2.18 · #629b92
- Harmony in GreenΔE00 2.258 · #6da493
- Aqua RapidsΔE00 2.315 · #63a39c
- Twining VineΔE00 2.54 · #74a69b
- Greyish TealΔE00 2.588 · #719f91
- Polished PineΔE00 2.62 · #5da493
- Little LeagueΔE00 2.637 · #6a9a8e
- Soft TouchΔE00 2.949 · #639b95
- Grey TealΔE00 2.953 · #5e9b8a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.