Prismarine
#117777
A cyan that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#117777
RGB
17, 119, 119
OKLCh
51.7% 0.085 194.9°
CIELAB (D50)
44.9, -27.7, -8.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 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 76.2; on black, Lc -25.6. 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 22.9 and 24.6 and 32.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.34:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.93:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.34:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#117777
protanopia
#717177 · ΔE00 22.9
deuteranopia
#666678 · ΔE00 24.6
tritanopia
#5757dd · ΔE00 32.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSkobeloff at ΔE00 1.229: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SkobeloffΔE00 1.229 · #007474
- Buzzards BayΔE00 1.243 · #017a79
- Blue GrassΔE00 1.377 · #007a7c
- Natural Instinct GreenΔE00 1.549 · #017374
- ToberniteΔE00 1.624 · #077a7d
- Artisan GreenΔE00 1.678 · #117471
- ReefΔE00 1.822 · #017371
- Greeny GlazeΔE00 1.862 · #067376
- Maxi TealΔE00 1.941 · #017478
- Tropical WatersΔE00 1.977 · #007c7e
- AtollΔE00 2.117 · #2b797a
- Scaly GreenΔE00 2.15 · #027275
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.