HueComb

Electric Lettuce

#7bd181

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

Hex

#7bd181

RGB

123, 209, 129

OKLCh

78.6% 0.140 145.6°

CIELAB (D50)

76.9, -39.5, 31.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.0; on black, Lc -67.6. 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 17.4 and 17.1 and 46.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.86:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.28:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.28:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#30873b 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

#7bd181

protanopia

#caca81 · ΔE00 17.4

deuteranopia

#bdbd84 · ΔE00 17.1

tritanopia

#aeaeff · ΔE00 46.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

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

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