Froggy Pond
#7fba9e
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
#7fba9e
RGB
127, 186, 158
OKLCh
74.0% 0.074 163.4°
CIELAB (D50)
70.9, -24.5, 7.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.9; on black, Lc -58.3. 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 17.0 and 17.9 and 35.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#488268 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
#7fba9e
protanopia
#b5b59e · ΔE00 17.0
deuteranopia
#abab9f · ΔE00 17.9
tritanopia
#a0a0ff · ΔE00 35.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNeptune Green at ΔE00 0.382: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Neptune GreenΔE00 0.382 · #7fbb9e
- Water GreenΔE00 1.199 · #81b89a
- Baby CakeΔE00 1.51 · #87bea3
- Grand GustoΔE00 1.55 · #86bb9d
- Celadon PorcelainΔE00 1.782 · #7ebea5
- Mountain Lake GreenΔE00 2.391 · #75b996
- Indian OceanΔE00 2.438 · #86b7a1
- PaduaΔE00 2.466 · #7eb394
- Mid-century GemΔE00 2.534 · #81b39c
- Lark GreenΔE00 2.598 · #8ac1a1
- ArboretumΔE00 2.649 · #70ba9f
- SummertownΔE00 2.651 · #8cbc9e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.