Evergreen
#125b49
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
#125b49
RGB
18, 91, 73
OKLCh
42.3% 0.075 171.9°
CIELAB (D50)
34.1, -26.3, 3.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 92% 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 87.5; on black, Lc -14.7. 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 19.0 and 19.9 and 35.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.02:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.62:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.02:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#125b49
protanopia
#565649 · ΔE00 19.0
deuteranopia
#4e4e4a · ΔE00 19.9
tritanopia
#4343a2 · ΔE00 35.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isForest Shadows at ΔE00 1.122: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Forest ShadowsΔE00 1.122 · #015a49
- Rousseau GreenΔE00 1.529 · #175844
- Billiard TableΔE00 1.731 · #155843
- Sci-Fi TakeoutΔE00 2.108 · #00604b
- Alpine GreenΔE00 2.276 · #005f50
- Teal DramaΔE00 2.356 · #24604f
- BagpiperΔE00 2.393 · #1c5544
- Country MeadowΔE00 2.511 · #1a5a4e
- Evening SeaΔE00 2.553 · #26604f
- Sacramento State GreenΔE00 2.741 · #00563f
- Tetsu GreenΔE00 3.113 · #005243
- EmbracingΔE00 3.331 · #246453
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.