Frankenstein
#7ba05b
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#7ba05b
RGB
123, 160, 91
OKLCh
66.1% 0.104 131.7°
CIELAB (D50)
61.9, -22.5, 31.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.5; on black, Lc -45.3. 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 10.0 and 9.9 and 42.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.99:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5d813d 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
#7ba05b
protanopia
#9c9c5b · ΔE00 10.0
deuteranopia
#96965c · ΔE00 9.9
tritanopia
#8f8fc6 · ΔE00 42.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpringview Green at ΔE00 0.829: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Springview GreenΔE00 0.829 · #7ea15a
- Leek SoupΔE00 1.283 · #7a9c58
- Verdant SerenadeΔE00 1.315 · #7f9e5b
- Bavarian GreenΔE00 2.067 · #749a54
- Grassy MeadowΔE00 2.157 · #76a55b
- Dry MossΔE00 2.263 · #769958
- KiwiΔE00 2.285 · #749e4e
- UnakiteΔE00 2.377 · #75a14f
- Meadow GreenΔE00 2.436 · #739957
- Tree Frog GreenΔE00 2.726 · #7ca14e
- BulbasaurΔE00 2.912 · #73a263
- Pine LeavesΔE00 3.015 · #839b5c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.