Aromatic Herbs
#98c945
A green that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#98c945
RGB
152, 201, 69
OKLCh
77.5% 0.168 127.4°
CIELAB (D50)
75.6, -31.3, 57.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 37.3; on black, Lc -65.1. 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 10.9 and 10.6 and 52.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.95:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.78:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.78:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5c8200 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#98c945
protanopia
#c4c444 · ΔE00 10.9
deuteranopia
#bcbc48 · ΔE00 10.6
tritanopia
#b3b3f0 · ΔE00 52.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWicked Green at ΔE00 0.489: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Wicked GreenΔE00 0.489 · #9bca47
- Lone HunterΔE00 1.355 · #94c84c
- Seductive ThornsΔE00 2.14 · #a2c748
- Green LanternΔE00 2.25 · #9cd03b
- Two Peas in a PodΔE00 2.262 · #a5ca4f
- Lucky LimeΔE00 2.292 · #9acd32
- Pesto GenoveseΔE00 2.431 · #9dc249
- Hill LandsΔE00 2.594 · #8dc248
- Blanka GreenΔE00 2.812 · #9cd33c
- Thrilling LimeΔE00 2.829 · #8cc34b
- OvergrowthΔE00 2.845 · #88cc33
- Citrus SurgeΔE00 2.887 · #8bc34a
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.