Electra
#55b492
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#55b492
RGB
85, 180, 146
OKLCh
70.3% 0.104 167.4°
CIELAB (D50)
66.9, -35.7, 8.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 49.2; on black, Lc -52.7. 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 20.2 and 21.3 and 39.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.52:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.33:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.33:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#1e8666 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
#55b492
protanopia
#adad92 · ΔE00 20.2
deuteranopia
#a0a094 · ΔE00 21.3
tritanopia
#8f8fff · ΔE00 39.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAruba Green at ΔE00 0.574: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Aruba GreenΔE00 0.574 · #54b490
- Blue Green SceneΔE00 1.792 · #56b78f
- Expressionism GreenΔE00 2.311 · #52bc9a
- Green BlueΔE00 2.434 · #42b395
- Crazy EyesΔE00 2.488 · #5eb68d
- O’grady GreenΔE00 2.537 · #58ac8f
- KeppelΔE00 2.623 · #5fb69c
- Walk in the WoodsΔE00 2.657 · #3bb08f
- SainsburyΔE00 2.667 · #66b89c
- Hisui KingfisherΔE00 2.794 · #38b48b
- MintΔE00 2.834 · #3eb489
- Peppermint FreshΔE00 3.214 · #64be9f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.