Sleepy Hollow
#839c6d
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
#839c6d
RGB
131, 156, 109
OKLCh
66.1% 0.073 130.9°
CIELAB (D50)
61.5, -15.7, 21.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.0; on black, Lc -44.8. 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 8.2 and 8.3 and 33.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.03:1 — large text only
Black text
6.94:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.94:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#667e50 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
#839c6d
protanopia
#99996d · ΔE00 8.2
deuteranopia
#95956e · ΔE00 8.3
tritanopia
#9090b6 · ΔE00 33.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurslane at ΔE00 1.483: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- PurslaneΔE00 1.483 · #879f6c
- Wild ThymeΔE00 1.617 · #7e9c6f
- Mesa VerdeΔE00 1.817 · #7f976c
- Pea AubergineΔE00 1.94 · #7c9865
- Jack BoneΔE00 1.945 · #869f69
- MoneyΔE00 2.092 · #7b9a6d
- Green SkyΔE00 2.123 · #859d66
- Agave PlantΔE00 2.159 · #879c67
- PickleΔE00 2.272 · #85a16a
- Antilles GardenΔE00 2.321 · #8aa277
- TendrilΔE00 2.406 · #869c65
- AmuletΔE00 2.429 · #7d9d72
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.