Herbal
#29ab87
A cyan that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#29ab87
RGB
41, 171, 135
OKLCh
66.4% 0.122 169.4°
CIELAB (D50)
62.6, -42.4, 8.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 92% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.7; on black, Lc -47.1. 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 22.0 and 22.7 and 42.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.27:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.27:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008768 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#29ab87
protanopia
#a3a387 · ΔE00 22.0
deuteranopia
#949489 · ΔE00 22.7
tritanopia
#8080ff · ΔE00 42.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGumdrop Green at ΔE00 1.239: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Gumdrop GreenΔE00 1.239 · #2ea785
- Wells of WonderΔE00 1.461 · #26ad8d
- Mermaid SongΔE00 1.655 · #25ae8e
- Simply GreenΔE00 1.695 · #00aa81
- NiagaraΔE00 1.796 · #29a98b
- Walk in the WoodsΔE00 2.055 · #3bb08f
- ArcadiaΔE00 2.177 · #00ac8d
- Active GreenΔE00 2.289 · #00a67e
- HobgoblinΔE00 2.505 · #01ad8f
- Congo GreenΔE00 2.661 · #00a483
- Victorian GreenhouseΔE00 2.672 · #00b191
- Chromophobia GreenΔE00 2.777 · #06b48b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.