Succulent Greenhouse
#8ba477
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
#8ba477
RGB
139, 164, 119
OKLCh
68.8% 0.070 131.7°
CIELAB (D50)
64.5, -15.3, 20.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% 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 52.9; on black, Lc -48.9. 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 8.3 and 8.4 and 33.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.74:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#667e53 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
#8ba477
protanopia
#a1a177 · ΔE00 8.3
deuteranopia
#9d9d78 · ΔE00 8.4
tritanopia
#9898c0 · ΔE00 33.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAntilles Garden at ΔE00 0.741: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Antilles GardenΔE00 0.741 · #8aa277
- Putrid GreenΔE00 1.504 · #89a572
- Moss CandyΔE00 1.509 · #8aa775
- SaladΔE00 1.517 · #8ba673
- BroccoflowerΔE00 1.701 · #8fa277
- Lady FernΔE00 2.116 · #8fa174
- Lounge GreenΔE00 2.211 · #8ba97f
- Perennial GardenΔE00 2.248 · #87a56f
- Luscious LimeΔE00 2.295 · #91a673
- PurslaneΔE00 2.347 · #879f6c
- Virtual ForestΔE00 2.414 · #8aa56e
- Forest ShadeΔE00 2.437 · #91ac80
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.