Tropical Rainforest
#00755e
A cyan that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#00755e
RGB
0, 117, 94
OKLCh
50.1% 0.097 172.8°
CIELAB (D50)
43.4, -33.9, 4.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.8; on black, Lc -24.0. 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 21.0 and 22.2 and 39.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.67:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.71:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.67:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#00755e
protanopia
#6f6f5e · ΔE00 21.0
deuteranopia
#636360 · ΔE00 22.2
tritanopia
#5555d2 · ΔE00 39.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUltramarine Green at ΔE00 1.854: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Ultramarine GreenΔE00 1.854 · #007a64
- Shady GladeΔE00 1.921 · #007865
- Teal WatersΔE00 2.055 · #007765
- Emerald DreamΔE00 2.253 · #007a5e
- Teal Dark GreenΔE00 2.727 · #006d57
- Turquoise CyanΔE00 2.736 · #0e7c61
- Deep SeaΔE00 3.335 · #167e65
- Northern HemisphereΔE00 3.338 · #017466
- PinehurstΔE00 3.378 · #2b7b66
- Poster GreenΔE00 3.402 · #006b56
- Ivy LeagueΔE00 3.403 · #007958
- Chrysocolla Medium GreenΔE00 3.443 · #006b57
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.