Aloe Vera
#678779
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#678779
RGB
103, 135, 121
OKLCh
59.5% 0.042 166.3°
CIELAB (D50)
53.5, -14.1, 3.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.8; on black, Lc -34.8. 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 12.8 and 13.4 and 28.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.95:1 — large text only
Black text
5.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5e7e70 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
#678779
protanopia
#848479 · ΔE00 12.8
deuteranopia
#7f7f7a · ΔE00 13.4
tritanopia
#7979be · ΔE00 28.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGarland at ΔE00 0.675: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- GarlandΔE00 0.675 · #69887b
- Green AdirondackΔE00 0.855 · #688878
- Sycamore GroveΔE00 0.914 · #6a8779
- LornaΔE00 1.145 · #658477
- Hanging VineΔE00 2.027 · #6e897d
- GreenellaΔE00 2.166 · #60857a
- Sea MonsterΔE00 2.459 · #658c7b
- Ranger GreenΔE00 2.679 · #6a8472
- Cutty SarkΔE00 2.993 · #5c8173
- Wild Beet LeafΔE00 3.053 · #6b8372
- Dark IvyΔE00 3.236 · #66856f
- Juniper OilΔE00 3.284 · #6b8b75
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.