Kashmir
#6f8d6a
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#6f8d6a
RGB
111, 141, 106
OKLCh
61.1% 0.062 141.0°
CIELAB (D50)
55.6, -16.3, 15.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 31% 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 64.4; on black, Lc -37.2. 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 10.7 and 11.0 and 34.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.69:1 — large text only
Black text
5.69:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.69:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#617e5c 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
#6f8d6a
protanopia
#8a8a6a · ΔE00 10.7
deuteranopia
#85856b · ΔE00 11.0
tritanopia
#7f7fb6 · ΔE00 34.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isForest Path at ΔE00 0.617: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Forest PathΔE00 0.617 · #708d6c
- Paying MantisΔE00 1.461 · #70916c
- Watercress SpiceΔE00 1.747 · #748c69
- Aspen GreenΔE00 1.931 · #72926b
- VillandryΔE00 1.959 · #728f66
- Moss RingΔE00 1.985 · #729067
- ToadΔE00 2.159 · #748d70
- Chá Lǜ GreenΔE00 2.162 · #77926f
- LaurelΔE00 2.297 · #6e8d71
- Shale GreenΔE00 2.444 · #6b886b
- Mixed VeggiesΔE00 2.475 · #719166
- Prickly Pear CactusΔE00 2.665 · #69916e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.