HueComb

Makin It Rain

#88bb55

A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#88bb55

RGB

136, 187, 85

OKLCh

73.4% 0.144 131.2°

CIELAB (D50)

70.6, -30.2, 45.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.5; on black, Lc -57.7. 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 11.9 and 11.6 and 51.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.26:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.29:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.29:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#548415 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

#88bb55

protanopia

#b6b655 · ΔE00 11.9

deuteranopia

#aeae57 · ΔE00 11.6

tritanopia

#a4a4ed · ΔE00 51.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpring Sprout at ΔE00 1.456: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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