HueComb

Soon to Be Hay

#7bb369

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

Hex

#7bb369

RGB

123, 179, 105

OKLCh

71.0% 0.119 138.4°

CIELAB (D50)

67.7, -29.6, 31.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.5; on black, Lc -53.5. 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 13.4 and 13.2 and 48.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.47:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.49:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.49:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4e843c 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

#7bb369

protanopia

#aeae69 · ΔE00 13.4

deuteranopia

#a5a56b · ΔE00 13.2

tritanopia

#9b9bf4 · ΔE00 48.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBud Green at ΔE00 0.904: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.