Hobgoblin
#01ad8f
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#01ad8f
RGB
1, 173, 143
OKLCh
66.7% 0.126 174.4°
CIELAB (D50)
63.0, -44.5, 4.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 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 53.9; on black, Lc -47.9. 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 23.1 and 24.1 and 41.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.85:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#00876f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#01ad8f
protanopia
#a4a48f · ΔE00 23.1
deuteranopia
#949491 · ΔE00 24.1
tritanopia
#7f7fff · ΔE00 41.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArcadia at ΔE00 0.457: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ArcadiaΔE00 0.457 · #00ac8d
- Victorian GreenhouseΔE00 1.224 · #00b191
- Mermaid SongΔE00 1.265 · #25ae8e
- Wells of WonderΔE00 1.29 · #26ad8d
- NiagaraΔE00 1.643 · #29a98b
- Moray EelΔE00 1.816 · #00a78b
- ShindigΔE00 1.819 · #00a990
- AlohaΔE00 1.882 · #1db394
- Ottawa FallsΔE00 2.03 · #00a78d
- Brilliant TurquoiseΔE00 2.172 · #00a68b
- HerbalΔE00 2.505 · #29ab87
- Walk in the WoodsΔE00 2.745 · #3bb08f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.