Garden Goddess
#99cea0
A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#99cea0
RGB
153, 206, 160
OKLCh
80.2% 0.085 148.2°
CIELAB (D50)
78.1, -24.7, 17.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 33.2; on black, Lc -69.4. 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 14.1 and 14.5 and 38.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.80:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.69:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.69:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#508258 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
#99cea0
protanopia
#c9c9a0 · ΔE00 14.1
deuteranopia
#c0c0a1 · ΔE00 14.5
tritanopia
#b6b6ff · ΔE00 38.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMover & Shaker at ΔE00 0.921: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mover & ShakerΔE00 0.921 · #9cce9e
- Low TideΔE00 0.963 · #99d1a4
- ChinookΔE00 1.558 · #9dd3a8
- FennelΔE00 1.88 · #8fce9b
- Sunlit GladeΔE00 1.93 · #98d4a0
- Frost GumΔE00 1.935 · #8ecb9e
- FescueΔE00 2.189 · #a1cda6
- Irish SpringΔE00 2.297 · #90cca3
- Potted PlantΔE00 2.408 · #9ecca7
- Kettle DrumΔE00 2.431 · #9bcb96
- Green AshΔE00 2.608 · #95d6a1
- Heath GreenΔE00 2.658 · #9acda9
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.