Gum Leaf
#acc9b2
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
#acc9b2
RGB
172, 201, 178
OKLCh
80.8% 0.045 151.4°
CIELAB (D50)
78.3, -13.4, 8.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 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 33.0; on black, Lc -69.6. 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 10.9 and 11.4 and 30.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.79:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.75:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.75:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#627d68 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
#acc9b2
protanopia
#c6c6b2 · ΔE00 10.9
deuteranopia
#c1c1b3 · ΔE00 11.4
tritanopia
#bbbbfb · ΔE00 30.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPastel Meadow at ΔE00 1.214: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pastel MeadowΔE00 1.214 · #a9c9af
- Spring LeavesΔE00 1.777 · #a8c3aa
- Bird’s Egg GreenΔE00 2.226 · #aaccb9
- Cambridge BlueΔE00 2.356 · #a3c1ad
- PitcherΔE00 2.549 · #b5d1be
- Misty JadeΔE00 2.618 · #acd0bb
- Pastel Mint GreenΔE00 2.648 · #add0b3
- Gossamer GreenΔE00 2.673 · #b2cfbe
- Aroma GardenΔE00 2.733 · #a1c4a8
- Green BarkΔE00 2.787 · #a9c4a6
- GreywackeΔE00 2.797 · #aaccbb
- Green SilkΔE00 2.797 · #a2c2b0
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.