Majestic Evergreen
#7d8878
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#7d8878
RGB
125, 136, 120
OKLCh
61.3% 0.027 135.8°
CIELAB (D50)
55.4, -6.5, 7.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 15% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.7; on black, Lc -37.0. 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 5.4 and 5.6 and 18.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.71:1 — large text only
Black text
5.66:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.66:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6f7a6a 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
#7d8878
protanopia
#878778 · ΔE00 5.4
deuteranopia
#858578 · ΔE00 5.6
tritanopia
#838397 · ΔE00 18.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLeafy Lichen at ΔE00 1.672: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Leafy LichenΔE00 1.672 · #7d8574
- Lush SageΔE00 1.727 · #7b8476
- Spruce ShadowΔE00 2.087 · #838a7a
- BrassicaΔE00 2.166 · #788879
- Garden BowerΔE00 2.355 · #778679
- Cactus GardenΔE00 2.499 · #7b8370
- Cigar SmokeΔE00 2.57 · #78857a
- Salty SeaΔE00 2.575 · #7c8b7f
- Wild SageΔE00 2.679 · #7e877d
- Stone CraftΔE00 2.709 · #7d867c
- Village GreenΔE00 2.877 · #7e867c
- Harbour Mist GreyΔE00 2.972 · #778071
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.