Norway
#a4b88f
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
#a4b88f
RGB
164, 184, 143
OKLCh
75.6% 0.061 128.9°
CIELAB (D50)
72.4, -12.7, 18.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 30% 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 41.9; on black, Lc -60.3. 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 7.1 and 7.2 and 28.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.83:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.83:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6a7d56 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
#a4b88f
protanopia
#b6b68f · ΔE00 7.1
deuteranopia
#b2b290 · ΔE00 7.2
tritanopia
#afafcb · ΔE00 28.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isByakuroku Green at ΔE00 0.882: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Byakuroku GreenΔE00 0.882 · #a5ba93
- HavenΔE00 1.299 · #a3b48c
- Easy GreenΔE00 1.659 · #9fb289
- Forest TapestryΔE00 1.807 · #a4ba8a
- Chervil LeavesΔE00 1.948 · #abbd90
- Japanese HorseradishΔE00 1.963 · #a8bf93
- Green SnowΔE00 1.964 · #9eb788
- Soap GreenΔE00 2.025 · #a0b28e
- Bavarian HopsΔE00 2.112 · #acbf93
- Seawashed GlassΔE00 2.162 · #a9c095
- GlendaleΔE00 2.169 · #a1bb8b
- Praying MantisΔE00 2.205 · #a5be8f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.