Mosslands
#779966
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#779966
RGB
119, 153, 102
OKLCh
64.4% 0.083 135.6°
CIELAB (D50)
59.7, -19.6, 22.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.3; on black, Lc -42.4. 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 10.2 and 10.2 and 38.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.21:1 — large text only
Black text
6.53:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.53:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5f804e 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
#779966
protanopia
#969666 · ΔE00 10.2
deuteranopia
#909067 · ΔE00 10.2
tritanopia
#8a8ac2 · ΔE00 38.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPea Aubergine at ΔE00 1.506: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pea AubergineΔE00 1.506 · #7c9865
- MoneyΔE00 1.632 · #7b9a6d
- Blackthorn GreenΔE00 1.715 · #739c69
- Van Gogh OlivesΔE00 1.77 · #759465
- Wild ThymeΔE00 2.078 · #7e9c6f
- Lush HighlandsΔE00 2.363 · #7a9461
- Botanical GreenΔE00 2.574 · #77976e
- AmuletΔE00 2.591 · #7d9d72
- Bland CeleryΔE00 2.696 · #74915f
- Sleepy HollowΔE00 2.748 · #839c6d
- Mesa VerdeΔE00 2.776 · #7f976c
- Reseda GreenΔE00 2.834 · #75946b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.