Green Goddess
#76ad83
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#76ad83
RGB
118, 173, 131
OKLCh
69.8% 0.084 151.1°
CIELAB (D50)
66.0, -25.5, 15.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.7; on black, Lc -51.2. 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 14.9 and 15.4 and 41.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.60:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4d825a 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
#76ad83
protanopia
#a8a883 · ΔE00 14.9
deuteranopia
#9f9f84 · ΔE00 15.4
tritanopia
#9595f8 · ΔE00 41.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreen Bank at ΔE00 1.102: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Green BankΔE00 1.102 · #79b088
- Frosted EmeraldΔE00 1.184 · #78b185
- Summer GardenΔE00 1.273 · #7aac80
- Light Grass GreenΔE00 1.549 · #70aa7c
- Morning ForestΔE00 1.668 · #6dae81
- AdventurineΔE00 1.828 · #7cac88
- Irish HedgeΔE00 1.894 · #7cb386
- Lily PadsΔE00 1.969 · #6db083
- Green GlobeΔE00 2.023 · #79aa87
- PrimaveraΔE00 2.115 · #6fa77a
- Mate TeaΔE00 2.172 · #7bb18d
- Tree FernΔE00 2.21 · #7fb489
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.