Wreath
#76856a
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
#76856a
RGB
118, 133, 106
OKLCh
59.7% 0.044 131.4°
CIELAB (D50)
53.7, -9.6, 12.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 27% 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 66.8; on black, Lc -34.9. 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 6.6 and 6.8 and 24.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.94:1 — large text only
Black text
5.33:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.33:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6d7b61 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
#76856a
protanopia
#83836a · ΔE00 6.6
deuteranopia
#81816a · ΔE00 6.8
tritanopia
#7e7e96 · ΔE00 24.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBladed Grass at ΔE00 1.333: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Bladed GrassΔE00 1.333 · #758269
- ChlorosisΔE00 1.509 · #75876e
- Cliffside ParkΔE00 2.117 · #6f8165
- Gazebo GreenΔE00 2.126 · #76826c
- Beech FernΔE00 2.247 · #758067
- Winter HedgeΔE00 2.327 · #798772
- Swedish CloverΔE00 2.466 · #7b8867
- Shallot BulbΔE00 2.99 · #7b8d73
- Lottery WinningsΔE00 3.274 · #768371
- CanalettoΔE00 3.312 · #818c72
- Pendula GardenΔE00 3.323 · #7b8267
- Spanish GreenΔE00 3.36 · #7b8976
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.