Emerald #06D6A0

About this color

#06D6A0 is a medium-light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 78%, its chroma 0.160 and its hue 167°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Emerald. Black text reads best on it, at 11.13:1.

Colors that go with Emerald

Matches found by rotating Emerald around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Emerald

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Emerald, closest first.

• Lollipop Party

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Emerald, with their ΔE distance.

• Aqua Green #12E193 ΔE 0.041
• Seaweed #18D17B ΔE 0.046
• Medium Aquamarine #66CDAA ΔE 0.050
• Greenblue #23C48B ΔE 0.051
• Aqua Marine #2EE8BB ΔE 0.057
• Green Blue #01C08D ΔE 0.062
• Soft Green #6FC276 ΔE 0.068
• Seafoam Blue #78D1B6 ΔE 0.068

More about Emerald

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Emerald

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 1 part green
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #74C780, a difference of ΔE 0.059 from Emerald. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Emerald in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Emerald

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 300.

1. Step 50

   50

   #E9FAF2

   oklch(97% 0.021 166.1)

2. Step 100

   100

   #CEF4E3

   oklch(93.5% 0.046 166.5)

3. Step 200

   200

   #9FECCC

   oklch(88.4% 0.088 166.5)

4. Step 300

   300 (this color)

   #06D6A0

   oklch(77.7% 0.16 166.6)

5. Step 400

   400

   #00BD8C

   oklch(70.8% 0.147 166.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #00A278

   oklch(63.2% 0.13 166.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #008864

   oklch(55.6% 0.115 166.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #007254

   oklch(49% 0.101 166.9)

9. Step 800

   800

   #005E44

   oklch(42.7% 0.088 166.3)

10. Step 900

    900

    #004E38

    oklch(37.6% 0.078 166.4)

11. Step 950

    950

    #002F20

    oklch(27.1% 0.056 165.8)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Emerald with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.