HueComb

Fresh Cut Grass

#91cb7d

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

Hex

#91cb7d

RGB

145, 203, 125

OKLCh

78.3% 0.122 138.0°

CIELAB (D50)

76.3, -30.3, 32.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.1; on black, Lc -66.4. 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 13.5 and 13.2 and 46.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.90:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.04:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.04:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4d8439 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

#91cb7d

protanopia

#c6c67d · ΔE00 13.5

deuteranopia

#bcbc7f · ΔE00 13.2

tritanopia

#b1b1ff · ΔE00 46.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApplegate at ΔE00 1.891: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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