Paying Mantis
#70916c
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
#70916c
RGB
112, 145, 108
OKLCh
62.1% 0.066 142.0°
CIELAB (D50)
56.9, -17.6, 15.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 32% 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 62.8; on black, Lc -38.9. 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 11.2 and 11.6 and 35.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.53:1 — large text only
Black text
5.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5f7f5b 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
#70916c
protanopia
#8e8e6c · ΔE00 11.2
deuteranopia
#88886d · ΔE00 11.6
tritanopia
#8282be · ΔE00 35.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAspen Green at ΔE00 0.796: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Aspen GreenΔE00 0.796 · #72926b
- KashmirΔE00 1.461 · #6f8d6a
- Moss RingΔE00 1.605 · #729067
- Forest PathΔE00 1.75 · #708d6c
- Reseda GreenΔE00 1.77 · #75946b
- TabboulehΔE00 1.78 · #709572
- Chá Lǜ GreenΔE00 1.787 · #77926f
- Mixed VeggiesΔE00 1.816 · #719166
- VillandryΔE00 1.87 · #728f66
- Prickly Pear CactusΔE00 2.025 · #69916e
- Blade GreenΔE00 2.188 · #6a9266
- Botanical GreenΔE00 2.4 · #77976e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.