Bermudagrass
#6bc271
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#6bc271
RGB
107, 194, 113
OKLCh
73.9% 0.142 145.4°
CIELAB (D50)
71.5, -40.1, 32.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.9; on black, Lc -59.2. 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 17.6 and 17.2 and 48.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.19:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.58:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.58:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#2e8739 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
#6bc271
protanopia
#bbbb70 · ΔE00 17.6
deuteranopia
#aeae74 · ΔE00 17.2
tritanopia
#9f9fff · ΔE00 48.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoft Green at ΔE00 0.914: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Soft GreenΔE00 0.914 · #6fc276
- Verdant OasisΔE00 1.384 · #62c46c
- DublinΔE00 1.709 · #73be6e
- Iguana GreenΔE00 2.481 · #71bc77
- Verdigris ColouredΔE00 2.545 · #62be77
- Young FernΔE00 2.625 · #71bc78
- Snow PeaΔE00 2.651 · #6ccc7b
- Zombie GreenΔE00 2.656 · #54c571
- Emerald CoryΔE00 2.796 · #52c170
- CitronellaΔE00 2.992 · #66bb77
- MantisΔE00 2.996 · #74c365
- Forest FernΔE00 3.068 · #63b76c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.