HueComb

Arugula

#75ad5b

A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#75ad5b

RGB

117, 173, 91

OKLCh

68.9% 0.128 136.5°

CIELAB (D50)

65.4, -30.6, 35.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.7; on black, Lc -50.2. 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 13.3 and 13.0 and 49.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.66:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.88:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.88:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4e8433 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#75ad5b

protanopia

#a8a85b · ΔE00 13.3

deuteranopia

#9f9f5d · ΔE00 13.0

tritanopia

#9595eb · ΔE00 49.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAsparagus at ΔE00 1.19: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.