Neptune Green
#7fbb9e
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
#7fbb9e
RGB
127, 187, 158
OKLCh
74.3% 0.075 162.9°
CIELAB (D50)
71.2, -24.9, 8.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.4; on black, Lc -58.7. 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 36.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.21:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#478267 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
#7fbb9e
protanopia
#b6b69e · ΔE00 17.0
deuteranopia
#acac9f · ΔE00 17.9
tritanopia
#a1a1ff · ΔE00 36.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFroggy Pond at ΔE00 0.382: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Froggy PondΔE00 0.382 · #7fba9e
- Water GreenΔE00 1.25 · #81b89a
- Baby CakeΔE00 1.478 · #87bea3
- Grand GustoΔE00 1.485 · #86bb9d
- Celadon PorcelainΔE00 1.813 · #7ebea5
- Mountain Lake GreenΔE00 2.193 · #75b996
- Lark GreenΔE00 2.35 · #8ac1a1
- PaduaΔE00 2.586 · #7eb394
- SummertownΔE00 2.608 · #8cbc9e
- Gauss Blaster GreenΔE00 2.654 · #84c3aa
- ArboretumΔE00 2.677 · #70ba9f
- Garden ViewΔE00 2.7 · #89b89a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.