Copper Patina
#9db4a0
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#9db4a0
RGB
157, 180, 160
OKLCh
74.7% 0.038 148.9°
CIELAB (D50)
71.1, -11.1, 7.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 18% 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 43.7; on black, Lc -58.5. 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 9.4 and 9.8 and 27.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#677c69 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
#9db4a0
protanopia
#b2b2a0 · ΔE00 9.4
deuteranopia
#aeaea1 · ΔE00 9.8
tritanopia
#a9a9db · ΔE00 27.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSilver Leaf at ΔE00 1.471: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Silver LeafΔE00 1.471 · #9db7a5
- Bamboo ShootΔE00 1.72 · #a3b6a4
- Spearmint HazeΔE00 2.036 · #9cb8a6
- Phoenix TearsΔE00 2.089 · #99b1a2
- Leamington SpaΔE00 2.095 · #a0b7a8
- Aqua FoamΔE00 2.353 · #a1baaa
- AtticaΔE00 2.43 · #a1bca9
- ReedsΔE00 2.466 · #a0bca7
- Frosty GreenΔE00 2.529 · #a3b5a6
- Burma JadeΔE00 2.597 · #94b1a0
- Thrush EggΔE00 2.621 · #a4b6a7
- BryophyteΔE00 2.942 · #a6bea6
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.