Catnip
#80aa95
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
#80aa95
RGB
128, 170, 149
OKLCh
70.1% 0.055 162.9°
CIELAB (D50)
66.1, -18.1, 6.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses only 36% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.6; on black, Lc -51.3. 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 14.6 and 15.2 and 32.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.59:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#577f6c 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
#80aa95
protanopia
#a6a695 · ΔE00 14.6
deuteranopia
#9f9f96 · ΔE00 15.2
tritanopia
#9797ef · ΔE00 32.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCovent Garden at ΔE00 2.173: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Covent GardenΔE00 2.173 · #86b097
- Pale WillowΔE00 2.222 · #89ab98
- CorsicanΔE00 2.391 · #85ac9d
- VerdigreenΔE00 2.42 · #81a595
- AcapulcoΔE00 2.436 · #75aa94
- Free GreenΔE00 2.437 · #74a690
- Nature GreenΔE00 2.553 · #7daf94
- Bristol GreenΔE00 2.707 · #83a492
- Mid-century GemΔE00 2.827 · #81b39c
- Le MaxΔE00 2.874 · #85b2a1
- Aspen AuraΔE00 2.978 · #83a494
- Holly FernΔE00 3.104 · #8cb299
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.