Pantone® Color of the Year 2013

Emerald

Pantone® 17-5641 TCX Emerald was named Pantone Color of the Year for 2013. Below: HEX, RGB, HSL and CMYK values, text contrast, palettes built on the color and the closest Pantone® C codes.

Note: Pantone® does not publish HEX values for its colors openly. The values here are screen approximations from community sources, not official Pantone® values. Pantone® is a trademark of Pantone LLC; this site is not affiliated with Pantone.

Pantone® 17-5641 Emerald color swatch, approximately #009473

Pantone® 17-5641 TCX

HEX#009473
RGBrgb(0, 148, 115)
HSLhsl(167, 100%, 29%)
CMYKcmyk(100%, 0%, 22%, 42%)

Unconfirmed Reference sites agree on #009473, but Pantone does not publish a HEX for this color openly and we found no second independent source. Treat it as a close guess.

Text contrast (WCAG 2)

White text on Emerald

3.83:1

AA normal: Fail · AA large: Pass · AAA normal: Fail

Black text on Emerald

5.48:1

AA normal: Pass · AA large: Pass · AAA normal: Fail

Color palettes based on Emerald

Complementary — Opposite colors on the color wheel

#009473
#940020

Analogous — Colors adjacent on the color wheel

#209400
#00942A
#009473
#006A94
#002094

Split Complementary — Base color + two adjacent to its complement

#009473
#94006A
#942A00

Triadic — Three colors evenly spaced on the color wheel

#009473
#740094
#947400

Monochromatic — Variations of lightness from the same hue

#003328
#009978
#00FFC8
#66FFDE
#CCFFF4

Closest Pantone® C colors

TCX is Pantone's textile system; these are the nearest print (C) codes from our library by Delta E (CIEDE2000). Lower is closer.

CSS

:root {
  --pantone-coy-2013-emerald: #009473;
}

.element {
  background-color: var(--pantone-coy-2013-emerald);
}