Frog Pond
#73b683
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#73b683
RGB
115, 182, 131
OKLCh
71.8% 0.101 150.8°
CIELAB (D50)
68.6, -30.5, 19.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 47.2; on black, Lc -54.8. 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 16.0 and 16.2 and 43.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.40:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.75:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.75:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#428454 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
#73b683
protanopia
#b0b083 · ΔE00 16.0
deuteranopia
#a6a685 · ΔE00 16.2
tritanopia
#9a9aff · ΔE00 43.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAbsinthe Green at ΔE00 0.619: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Absinthe GreenΔE00 0.619 · #76b583
- Jade Stone GreenΔE00 1.623 · #74bb83
- Irish HedgeΔE00 2.101 · #7cb386
- Frosted EmeraldΔE00 2.171 · #78b185
- AppletonΔE00 2.234 · #6eb478
- Lily PadsΔE00 2.245 · #6db083
- LucerneΔE00 2.364 · #77b87c
- FlashmanΔE00 2.395 · #7cbd85
- VerdeΔE00 2.47 · #7fb383
- Elf ShoeΔE00 2.532 · #68b082
- Morning ForestΔE00 2.589 · #6dae81
- Tree FernΔE00 2.599 · #7fb489
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.