HueComb

Leek

#98d98e

A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#98d98e

RGB

152, 217, 142

OKLCh

82.3% 0.122 141.2°

CIELAB (D50)

80.9, -32.1, 30.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.0; on black, Lc -73.9. 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 14.5 and 14.3 and 43.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.66:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.65:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.65:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#47853e 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

#98d98e

protanopia

#d3d38e · ΔE00 14.5

deuteranopia

#c9c990 · ΔE00 14.3

tritanopia

#bdbdff · ΔE00 43.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRetro at ΔE00 1.319: 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.