Mintnight
#7cbbae
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
#7cbbae
RGB
124, 187, 174
OKLCh
74.6% 0.068 179.9°
CIELAB (D50)
71.3, -23.3, -0.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.1; on black, Lc -59.1. 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 18.7 and 20.3 and 31.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.19:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.58:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.58:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#438276 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
#7cbbae
protanopia
#b5b5ae · ΔE00 18.7
deuteranopia
#acacaf · ΔE00 20.3
tritanopia
#a0a0ff · ΔE00 31.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWinter Surf at ΔE00 1.138: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Winter SurfΔE00 1.138 · #7fb9ae
- Cooled BlueΔE00 1.366 · #75b9ae
- MintageΔE00 1.491 · #78bfb2
- Mint Bonbon GreenΔE00 1.654 · #7db6a8
- IntracoastalΔE00 1.772 · #77b5aa
- Ocean WaveΔE00 1.837 · #7dbcaa
- Sereni TealΔE00 1.981 · #76baa8
- Glacial GreenΔE00 2.162 · #6fb7a8
- HolidayΔE00 2.173 · #81c3b4
- SeabornΔE00 2.272 · #85c2b2
- Lenticular OreΔE00 2.282 · #6fb5a8
- Turtle LakeΔE00 2.39 · #73b7a5
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.