Rooftop Garden
#9ead92
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
#9ead92
RGB
158, 173, 146
OKLCh
72.8% 0.042 131.2°
CIELAB (D50)
69.0, -9.2, 12.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 21% 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 46.8; on black, Lc -55.2. 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 6.4 and 6.5 and 23.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.37:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6d7b62 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
#9ead92
protanopia
#abab92 · ΔE00 6.4
deuteranopia
#a9a992 · ΔE00 6.5
tritanopia
#a6a6be · ΔE00 23.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTsurubami Green at ΔE00 1.543: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tsurubami GreenΔE00 1.543 · #9ba88d
- ResedaΔE00 1.725 · #9da98c
- Zucchini CreamΔE00 1.968 · #97a98b
- Banyan SerenityΔE00 1.987 · #98ab8c
- BanksiaΔE00 2.227 · #a6b29a
- Hidden GladeΔE00 2.311 · #98ad8e
- GardenΔE00 2.455 · #9fac98
- Fern LeafΔE00 2.495 · #99a787
- Green AmazonsΔE00 2.552 · #98a893
- CardoonΔE00 2.557 · #9aae8c
- BushelΔE00 2.561 · #9fa993
- Mow the LawnΔE00 2.746 · #a9b49a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.