Exploring the Color #0F9C79

#0F9C79 sits at 165° on the color wheel, placing it in the cyan family of the cool half of the spectrum. With 82% saturation and 34% lightness, it reads as a richly saturated, shadowed tone — a balanced mid-energy presence that sits comfortably alongside other UI tones. Its RGB mix of 15, 156, 121 produces a 6.05:1 contrast ratio against black, which clears WCAG AA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #0F9C79 is a clear variant of CSS teal — about 33 units away from #008080. Designers reach for cyan hues at this saturation when the brief calls for bold, immediate signal, and at this lightness when they want a present, comfortable mid-canvas voice. On screen the cool cast tends to pair best with warm neutrals in the 25°-45° range to add life.

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