Salvia
#a8b59e
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
#a8b59e
RGB
168, 181, 158
OKLCh
75.6% 0.035 131.4°
CIELAB (D50)
72.2, -7.9, 10.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 17% 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 42.2; on black, Lc -60.0. 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 5.7 and 5.9 and 20.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.15:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.77:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.77:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6e7b65 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
#a8b59e
protanopia
#b4b49e · ΔE00 5.7
deuteranopia
#b1b19e · ΔE00 5.9
tritanopia
#afafc4 · ΔE00 20.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanksia at ΔE00 0.972: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BanksiaΔE00 0.972 · #a6b29a
- Mow the LawnΔE00 1.368 · #a9b49a
- Winter SquashΔE00 1.446 · #acb99f
- Laurel MistΔE00 1.902 · #acb5a1
- GargoyleΔE00 2.123 · #abb39e
- Fresh ThymeΔE00 2.372 · #aebda8
- Jade CameoΔE00 2.481 · #b0bda2
- Unroasted CoffeeΔE00 2.497 · #b1bea8
- Limestone GreenΔE00 2.51 · #a5af9d
- Meadow MornΔE00 2.519 · #aebea6
- Laurel GreenΔE00 2.519 · #a9ba9d
- DrizzleΔE00 2.648 · #a0af9d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.