Turquoise
#06c2ac
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#06c2ac
RGB
6, 194, 172
OKLCh
73.0% 0.131 180.8°
CIELAB (D50)
70.3, -46.0, -1.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 43.8; on black, Lc -58.4. 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 24.1 and 26.4 and 38.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.25:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008676 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
#06c2ac
protanopia
#b8b8ac · ΔE00 24.1
deuteranopia
#a6a6ae · ΔE00 26.4
tritanopia
#8f8fff · ΔE00 38.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAmazonite at ΔE00 0.878: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AmazoniteΔE00 0.878 · #00c4b0
- TealishΔE00 1.71 · #24bca8
- Pure CyanΔE00 1.717 · #36bfa8
- Jade MountainΔE00 2.208 · #34c2a7
- VerditerΔE00 2.328 · #00bbaa
- Melbourne CupΔE00 2.356 · #45c3ad
- CaptureΔE00 2.406 · #2cbaa3
- SynergyΔE00 2.715 · #48c2b0
- First PostΔE00 2.803 · #2fbda1
- Aare RiverΔE00 2.998 · #00b89f
- Disc JockeyΔE00 3.067 · #47c6ac
- Pristine OceanicΔE00 3.187 · #00ccbb
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.