Green Tea Mochi
#90a96e
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#90a96e
RGB
144, 169, 110
OKLCh
70.1% 0.086 127.2°
CIELAB (D50)
66.2, -16.8, 27.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.7; on black, Lc -51.2. 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 7.4 and 7.4 and 34.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.60:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.09:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.09:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#677e45 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
#90a96e
protanopia
#a6a66e · ΔE00 7.4
deuteranopia
#a2a26f · ΔE00 7.4
tritanopia
#9d9dbd · ΔE00 34.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGeranium Leaf at ΔE00 1.448: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Geranium LeafΔE00 1.448 · #90ac74
- Lettuce MoundΔE00 1.488 · #92a772
- ScarpettaΔE00 1.552 · #8ca468
- Virtual ForestΔE00 1.756 · #8aa56e
- Luscious LimeΔE00 1.925 · #91a673
- CeluceΔE00 1.973 · #8bab68
- Rural EyesΔE00 2.136 · #99af73
- Peeled AsparagusΔE00 2.153 · #87a96b
- SaladΔE00 2.322 · #8ba673
- Perennial GardenΔE00 2.471 · #87a56f
- Putrid GreenΔE00 2.617 · #89a572
- Wyvern GreenΔE00 2.62 · #86a96f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.