Enchanted Emerald
#7ed89a
A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#7ed89a
RGB
126, 216, 154
OKLCh
81.0% 0.124 152.8°
CIELAB (D50)
79.5, -38.3, 21.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.0; on black, Lc -71.8. 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 18.3 and 18.2 and 41.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.72:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#29874e 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
#7ed89a
protanopia
#d0d09a · ΔE00 18.3
deuteranopia
#c3c39c · ΔE00 18.2
tritanopia
#b3b3ff · ΔE00 41.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPatrice at ΔE00 1.953: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- PatriceΔE00 1.953 · #8cd9a1
- Mother of Pearl GreenΔE00 2.314 · #8fd89f
- Aurora GreenΔE00 2.503 · #6adc99
- Jovial JadeΔE00 2.911 · #88ddaa
- May AppleΔE00 3.201 · #92d599
- Garden GlowΔE00 3.312 · #7dcc98
- Serengeti GreenΔE00 3.465 · #77cc88
- Green AshΔE00 3.497 · #95d6a1
- Jube GreenΔE00 3.51 · #78cf86
- Jocose JadeΔE00 3.565 · #77cc99
- Van Gogh GreenΔE00 3.738 · #65ce95
- FennelΔE00 4.048 · #8fce9b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.