Verde
#7fb383
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#7fb383
RGB
127, 179, 131
OKLCh
71.7% 0.088 146.5°
CIELAB (D50)
68.3, -25.2, 18.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 47.6; on black, Lc -54.4. 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 13.8 and 14.1 and 42.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.42:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.68:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.68:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#508255 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
#7fb383
protanopia
#aeae83 · ΔE00 13.8
deuteranopia
#a6a684 · ΔE00 14.1
tritanopia
#9c9cf9 · ΔE00 42.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIrish Hedge at ΔE00 1.135: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Irish HedgeΔE00 1.135 · #7cb386
- PeapodΔE00 1.2 · #82b185
- MeadowΔE00 1.36 · #81b489
- Tree FernΔE00 1.463 · #7fb489
- Frosted EmeraldΔE00 1.807 · #78b185
- Absinthe GreenΔE00 1.861 · #76b583
- Chatty CricketΔE00 2.017 · #89b386
- Summer GardenΔE00 2.134 · #7aac80
- Oilcloth GreenΔE00 2.396 · #83ba8e
- Frog PondΔE00 2.47 · #73b683
- Green BankΔE00 2.573 · #79b088
- Green GoddessΔE00 2.598 · #76ad83
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.