Beau Vert
#0c6064
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#0c6064
RGB
12, 96, 100
OKLCh
44.6% 0.072 200.1°
CIELAB (D50)
36.4, -22.7, -9.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 96% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.0; on black, Lc -17.0. 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 21.5 and 23.0 and 28.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.31:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.87:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.31:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#0c6064
protanopia
#5b5b64 · ΔE00 21.5
deuteranopia
#525265 · ΔE00 23.0
tritanopia
#4646b6 · ΔE00 28.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCaribbean Swim at ΔE00 1.098: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Caribbean SwimΔE00 1.098 · #126366
- Really TealΔE00 1.137 · #016367
- Emerald PoolΔE00 1.165 · #155e60
- Sandhill CraneΔE00 1.309 · #015e60
- Enamelled JewelΔE00 1.397 · #045c61
- Turkish AquaΔE00 1.705 · #006169
- Blue EmeraldΔE00 2.015 · #0f5a5e
- Joyful TearsΔE00 2.176 · #006669
- Trouser BlueΔE00 2.353 · #00666d
- Gulf HarbourΔE00 2.575 · #225e64
- Wakame GreenΔE00 2.636 · #00656e
- Peacock TailΔE00 2.681 · #01636d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.