Frosted Fir
#b4d5bd
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
#b4d5bd
RGB
180, 213, 189
OKLCh
84.2% 0.048 153.7°
CIELAB (D50)
82.3, -14.8, 8.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 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 26.8; on black, Lc -76.2. 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 11.9 and 12.4 and 29.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.59:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.19:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.19:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5f7e68 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
#b4d5bd
protanopia
#d2d2bd · ΔE00 11.9
deuteranopia
#ccccbe · ΔE00 12.4
tritanopia
#c6c6ff · ΔE00 29.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReclining Green at ΔE00 0.604: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Reclining GreenΔE00 0.604 · #b7d7bf
- GinninderraΔE00 1.094 · #b3d5c0
- Cool SpringΔE00 1.525 · #bbd9c3
- SurfΔE00 1.535 · #b8d4bb
- Enchanted MeadowΔE00 1.644 · #b1d4b7
- Sprite TwistΔE00 1.651 · #b9dcc3
- Ice MistΔE00 1.881 · #b6dbbf
- Chlorophyll CreamΔE00 1.895 · #b3d6c3
- Misty JadeΔE00 1.93 · #acd0bb
- NamasteΔE00 2.031 · #bdd8c0
- Pastel Mint GreenΔE00 2.14 · #add0b3
- PitcherΔE00 2.142 · #b5d1be
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.