Moss Gardens
#768b59
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
#768b59
RGB
118, 139, 89
OKLCh
60.7% 0.076 127.0°
CIELAB (D50)
55.2, -14.7, 24.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.0; on black, Lc -36.7. 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 7.0 and 7.0 and 31.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.74:1 — large text only
Black text
5.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#697e4c 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
#768b59
protanopia
#898959 · ΔE00 7.0
deuteranopia
#85855a · ΔE00 7.0
tritanopia
#81819c · ΔE00 31.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSnip of Parsley at ΔE00 1.441: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Snip of ParsleyΔE00 1.441 · #718854
- Sage LeavesΔE00 1.626 · #7b8b5d
- Bright ForestΔE00 1.784 · #728a51
- Fern CanopyΔE00 1.86 · #758a5f
- Four Leaf CloverΔE00 2.165 · #738f5d
- Moss Point GreenΔE00 2.3 · #7e8d60
- Green SuedeΔE00 2.524 · #73884d
- Scarabœus NobilisΔE00 2.553 · #7d8c55
- HerbΔE00 2.57 · #708452
- Green EnergyΔE00 2.608 · #80905f
- Mixedwood LeafΔE00 2.652 · #6e8659
- Bland CeleryΔE00 2.726 · #74915f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.