Jolly Jade
#77ccbb
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#77ccbb
RGB
119, 204, 187
OKLCh
78.6% 0.087 179.6°
CIELAB (D50)
76.3, -30.0, -0.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.6; on black, Lc -66.9. 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 20.9 and 23.0 and 32.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.14:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.14:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#2a8475 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
#77ccbb
protanopia
#c5c5bb · ΔE00 20.9
deuteranopia
#b8b8bd · ΔE00 23.0
tritanopia
#a9a9ff · ΔE00 32.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShockwave at ΔE00 1.118: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- ShockwaveΔE00 1.118 · #72c8b8
- Bevelled GlassΔE00 1.185 · #7accb8
- Hawaiian VacationΔE00 1.45 · #77cabd
- Monte CarloΔE00 2.008 · #7ac5b4
- DownyΔE00 2.029 · #6fd2be
- Turquoise TwistΔE00 2.149 · #73d4c2
- Blue FrostingΔE00 2.203 · #86d2c1
- Pale JadeΔE00 2.381 · #77c3b4
- Meridian StarΔE00 2.402 · #7bc8b2
- Dip in the PoolΔE00 2.438 · #68cfc1
- Kinetic TealΔE00 2.438 · #64cdbe
- PatinaΔE00 2.446 · #66d0c0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.