Thyme and Place
#6f8770
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
#6f8770
RGB
111, 135, 112
OKLCh
59.8% 0.044 146.1°
CIELAB (D50)
53.9, -12.5, 9.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 24% 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 66.5; on black, Lc -35.2. 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 10.0 and 10.3 and 29.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.91:1 — large text only
Black text
5.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#657d66 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
#6f8770
protanopia
#858570 · ΔE00 10.0
deuteranopia
#818171 · ΔE00 10.3
tritanopia
#7c7cac · ΔE00 29.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWonderland at ΔE00 1.408: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- WonderlandΔE00 1.408 · #718a70
- CapsellaΔE00 1.844 · #6d8a74
- Hedge GreenΔE00 2.073 · #768a75
- Christmas HollyΔE00 2.133 · #68846a
- Hibiscus LeafΔE00 2.218 · #6e826e
- Shale GreenΔE00 2.318 · #6b886b
- ChlorosisΔE00 2.333 · #75876e
- Ranger GreenΔE00 2.343 · #6a8472
- Ivy WreathΔE00 2.424 · #708d76
- Dark IvyΔE00 2.578 · #66856f
- Wild Beet LeafΔE00 2.605 · #6b8372
- Juniper OilΔE00 2.703 · #6b8b75
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.