Leafy
#679b6a
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#679b6a
RGB
103, 155, 106
OKLCh
63.9% 0.091 145.8°
CIELAB (D50)
59.3, -25.8, 20.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.6; on black, Lc -42.1. 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 13.9 and 14.1 and 42.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.24:1 — large text only
Black text
6.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4f8253 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
#679b6a
protanopia
#96966a · ΔE00 13.9
deuteranopia
#8e8e6b · ΔE00 14.1
tritanopia
#8585dd · ΔE00 42.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAbundance at ΔE00 1.655: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- AbundanceΔE00 1.655 · #629763
- Wildness MintΔE00 1.84 · #5d9865
- MilpaΔE00 2.047 · #689663
- Rosemary GreenΔE00 2.09 · #699b72
- TreeletΔE00 2.11 · #609f6e
- Blackthorn GreenΔE00 2.635 · #739c69
- EndlessΔE00 2.655 · #5b976a
- Mosaic GreenΔE00 2.853 · #599f68
- Great GazooΔE00 2.929 · #5ca16d
- Arizona Tree FrogΔE00 3.012 · #669264
- GrowthΔE00 3.098 · #6ca178
- Russian GreenΔE00 3.151 · #679267
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.