HueComb

Mistletoe

#8aa282

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

#8aa282

RGB

138, 162, 130

OKLCh

68.5% 0.053 137.9°

CIELAB (D50)

64.1, -13.4, 13.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 25% 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 53.5; on black, Lc -48.3. 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 9.1 and 9.4 and 30.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.77:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.57:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.57:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#667d5e 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

#8aa282

protanopia

#a0a082 · ΔE00 9.1

deuteranopia

#9b9b83 · ΔE00 9.4

tritanopia

#9797c3 · ΔE00 30.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGallery Green at ΔE00 1.227: 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.