Sereni Teal
#76baa8
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#76baa8
RGB
118, 186, 168
OKLCh
73.8% 0.074 175.5°
CIELAB (D50)
70.6, -25.6, 2.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.1; on black, Lc -58.0. 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 19.1 and 20.2 and 33.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#3e8272 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#76baa8
protanopia
#b4b4a8 · ΔE00 19.1
deuteranopia
#aaaaa9 · ΔE00 20.2
tritanopia
#9d9dff · ΔE00 33.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTurtle Lake at ΔE00 0.85: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Turtle LakeΔE00 0.85 · #73b7a5
- LarchmereΔE00 0.942 · #70baa7
- Ocean WaveΔE00 1.126 · #7dbcaa
- Glacial GreenΔE00 1.626 · #6fb7a8
- MintnightΔE00 1.981 · #7cbbae
- Peppermint BarΔE00 2.023 · #81bca8
- Tropic TurquoiseΔE00 2.037 · #6ab5a4
- Mint Bonbon GreenΔE00 2.255 · #7db6a8
- Key LargoΔE00 2.343 · #7fb6a4
- Lenticular OreΔE00 2.344 · #6fb5a8
- Patina HueΔE00 2.349 · #83baa8
- MintageΔE00 2.401 · #78bfb2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.