HueComb

Asparagus

#77ab56

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

Hex

#77ab56

RGB

119, 171, 86

OKLCh

68.5% 0.129 134.5°

CIELAB (D50)

64.9, -29.4, 37.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.4; on black, Lc -49.4. 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 12.6 and 12.3 and 49.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.71:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#52832e 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

#77ab56

protanopia

#a6a656 · ΔE00 12.6

deuteranopia

#9e9e58 · ΔE00 12.3

tritanopia

#9494e2 · ΔE00 49.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArugula 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.

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