Celadon Porcelain
#7ebea5
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#7ebea5
RGB
126, 190, 165
OKLCh
75.1% 0.075 167.8°
CIELAB (D50)
72.1, -25.5, 5.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.0; on black, Lc -60.2. 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 18.0 and 19.0 and 34.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.80:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.80:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#43826b 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
#7ebea5
protanopia
#b8b8a5 · ΔE00 18.0
deuteranopia
#aeaea6 · ΔE00 19.0
tritanopia
#a3a3ff · ΔE00 34.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGauss Blaster Green at ΔE00 1.413: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Gauss Blaster GreenΔE00 1.413 · #84c3aa
- Green BalloonΔE00 1.62 · #80c4a9
- Peppermint BarΔE00 1.732 · #81bca8
- Froggy PondΔE00 1.782 · #7fba9e
- Neptune GreenΔE00 1.813 · #7fbb9e
- Baby CakeΔE00 1.961 · #87bea3
- Hellion GreenΔE00 2.137 · #87c5ae
- ArboretumΔE00 2.197 · #70ba9f
- Ocean WaveΔE00 2.403 · #7dbcaa
- Patina HueΔE00 2.642 · #83baa8
- Mint Cold GreenΔE00 2.653 · #6cbba0
- Spearmint FrostingΔE00 2.657 · #8dc2a8
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.