Windows 95 Desktop
#018281
A cyan that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#018281
RGB
1, 130, 129
OKLCh
54.9% 0.094 193.8°
CIELAB (D50)
48.7, -30.9, -8.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- 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 71.8; on black, Lc -29.9. 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 23.9 and 25.4 and 34.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.51:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#018281
protanopia
#7b7b81 · ΔE00 23.9
deuteranopia
#6f6f82 · ΔE00 25.4
tritanopia
#5f5ff2 · ΔE00 34.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarine Teal at ΔE00 0.551: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Marine TealΔE00 0.551 · #008383
- Belly FlopΔE00 0.563 · #00817f
- Pond BathΔE00 0.807 · #00827f
- TealΔE00 0.816 · #008080
- FanfareΔE00 0.891 · #008384
- Bay TealΔE00 1.434 · #018486
- Green LapisΔE00 1.492 · #008684
- Milky AquamarineΔE00 1.801 · #038487
- ParasailingΔE00 1.819 · #007d7c
- BayouΔE00 1.824 · #268483
- Tubbataha TealΔE00 1.971 · #0e8787
- Blue Winged TealΔE00 2.006 · #00827c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.