HueComb

Basswood Green

#839e83

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

#839e83

RGB

131, 158, 131

OKLCh

67.1% 0.050 145.0°

CIELAB (D50)

62.5, -13.9, 10.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 24% 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 55.6; on black, Lc -46.2. 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 10.4 and 10.8 and 30.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.92:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.18:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.18:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#637d63 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#839e83

protanopia

#9b9b83 · ΔE00 10.4

deuteranopia

#979784 · ΔE00 10.8

tritanopia

#9191c7 · ΔE00 30.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVineyard at ΔE00 0.749: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.