HueComb

Wicked Green

#9bca47

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

Hex

#9bca47

RGB

155, 202, 71

OKLCh

78.0% 0.166 126.8°

CIELAB (D50)

76.1, -30.5, 57.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 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 36.6; on black, Lc -65.9. 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 10.5 and 10.3 and 51.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.92:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.93:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.93:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5d8200 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.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#9bca47

protanopia

#c5c546 · ΔE00 10.5

deuteranopia

#bebe4a · ΔE00 10.3

tritanopia

#b5b5ee · ΔE00 51.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAromatic Herbs at ΔE00 0.489: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.