Cyantific
#77c9c2
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#77c9c2
RGB
119, 201, 194
OKLCh
78.2% 0.081 188.6°
CIELAB (D50)
75.6, -27.4, -4.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.7; on black, Lc -65.8. 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 21.1 and 23.7 and 29.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.92:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#2d837d 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
#77c9c2
protanopia
#c2c2c2 · ΔE00 21.1
deuteranopia
#b6b6c3 · ΔE00 23.7
tritanopia
#a7a7ff · ΔE00 29.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Green Gem at ΔE00 0.841: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blue Green GemΔE00 0.841 · #7ccbc5
- Turkish TealΔE00 1.024 · #72cac1
- Booty BayΔE00 1.625 · #7fc6be
- Hawaiian VacationΔE00 2.204 · #77cabd
- SkylarΔE00 2.222 · #6bccc1
- Tropic TideΔE00 2.263 · #6cc1bb
- Hidden Sea GlassΔE00 2.417 · #6fd1c9
- Nile StoneΔE00 2.523 · #61c9c1
- Surf WashΔE00 2.588 · #87ceca
- Gentle WaveΔE00 2.637 · #7ac0bb
- Chinese LacquerΔE00 2.651 · #60c7c2
- Electro ChillΔE00 2.813 · #89d1cb
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.