Camping Grounds
#b4c2a2
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
#b4c2a2
RGB
180, 194, 162
OKLCh
79.5% 0.047 126.7°
CIELAB (D50)
76.7, -9.3, 14.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% 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 35.6; on black, Lc -66.9. 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 5.6 and 5.8 and 22.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.88:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6e7b5d 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
#b4c2a2
protanopia
#c0c0a2 · ΔE00 5.6
deuteranopia
#bebea2 · ΔE00 5.8
tritanopia
#bbbbcd · ΔE00 22.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChopped Dill at ΔE00 0.834: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chopped DillΔE00 0.834 · #b6c2a1
- Garden PondΔE00 1.34 · #afc09e
- Green AndaraΔE00 1.681 · #afc1a3
- Quaking GrassΔE00 1.76 · #bbc6a4
- Freshwater GreenΔE00 1.803 · #b5c7a4
- Jade CameoΔE00 1.937 · #b0bda2
- Green Eggs & CamΔE00 2.023 · #b3c39c
- Wispy MintΔE00 2.054 · #bcc7a4
- Pale LeafΔE00 2.192 · #bdcaa8
- ChrysopraseΔE00 2.249 · #adba98
- Pale SageΔE00 2.257 · #acbda1
- Creamy SpinachΔE00 2.28 · #b2bfa6
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.