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#6db083
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#6db083
RGB
109, 176, 131
OKLCh
70.0% 0.096 153.9°
CIELAB (D50)
66.4, -29.7, 16.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.1; on black, Lc -51.9. 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 16.4 and 16.9 and 42.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.56:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.19:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.19:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#418459 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
#6db083
protanopia
#aaaa83 · ΔE00 16.4
deuteranopia
#a0a085 · ΔE00 16.9
tritanopia
#9494ff · ΔE00 42.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMorning Forest at ΔE00 0.611: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Morning ForestΔE00 0.611 · #6dae81
- Elf ShoeΔE00 0.758 · #68b082
- Green Tea CandyΔE00 1.781 · #65ab7c
- Frosted EmeraldΔE00 1.804 · #78b185
- Green GoddessΔE00 1.969 · #76ad83
- Green BankΔE00 2.158 · #79b088
- Light Grass GreenΔE00 2.193 · #70aa7c
- Frog PondΔE00 2.245 · #73b683
- Absinthe GreenΔE00 2.255 · #76b583
- Irish HedgeΔE00 2.518 · #7cb386
- Green TourmalineΔE00 2.668 · #5eab81
- Water FernΔE00 2.765 · #75b790
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.