Limestoned
#a7cca4
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#a7cca4
RGB
167, 204, 164
OKLCh
80.8% 0.068 143.0°
CIELAB (D50)
78.5, -18.5, 15.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 25% 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 32.7; on black, Lc -69.9. 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 11.5 and 11.9 and 36.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.78:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5d7f5b 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
#a7cca4
protanopia
#c8c8a4 · ΔE00 11.5
deuteranopia
#c2c2a5 · ΔE00 11.9
tritanopia
#bbbbff · ΔE00 36.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGarden Room at ΔE00 1.1: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Garden RoomΔE00 1.1 · #accfa9
- Mint CircleΔE00 1.279 · #a9ceaa
- French MarketΔE00 1.649 · #a2c7a3
- FescueΔE00 1.726 · #a1cda6
- GingkoΔE00 2.221 · #a3c899
- Coral SpringsΔE00 2.243 · #abd1af
- Potted PlantΔE00 2.484 · #9ecca7
- Spinach DipΔE00 2.811 · #b1cdac
- Relaxation GreenΔE00 2.857 · #a8d19e
- Gio Ponti GreenΔE00 2.867 · #b3ceab
- Flower StemΔE00 2.869 · #b5d5b0
- MerrylynΔE00 2.907 · #a5d0af
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.