Grape Green
#a8e4a0
A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#a8e4a0
RGB
168, 228, 160
OKLCh
86.1% 0.111 141.6°
CIELAB (D50)
85.2, -29.4, 26.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses only 39% 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 22.2; on black, Lc -81.0. 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 13.9 and 13.8 and 39.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.47:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.27:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.27:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4c8445 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
#a8e4a0
protanopia
#dedea0 · ΔE00 13.9
deuteranopia
#d5d5a2 · ΔE00 13.8
tritanopia
#c9c9ff · ΔE00 39.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAppetite at ΔE00 2.081: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- AppetiteΔE00 2.081 · #b1e5aa
- Granny Smith AppleΔE00 2.209 · #9de093
- RetroΔE00 2.263 · #9bdc96
- Frosted HillsΔE00 2.394 · #aaeeaa
- Paradise GreenΔE00 2.437 · #a3e493
- Green GooseberryΔE00 2.506 · #b0dfa4
- Cool AloeΔE00 2.919 · #a9d99c
- Ice IceΔE00 2.957 · #baebae
- MadangΔE00 2.97 · #b7e3a8
- Basilisk LizardΔE00 3.137 · #bcecac
- Weekend GardenerΔE00 3.169 · #9fe4aa
- Basil SmashΔE00 3.209 · #b7e1a1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.