In Good Taste
#b6d4a0
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
#b6d4a0
RGB
182, 212, 160
OKLCh
83.5% 0.077 132.3°
CIELAB (D50)
81.7, -17.3, 22.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 33% 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 27.9; on black, Lc -75.0. 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 8.8 and 8.9 and 35.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.63:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.91:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.91:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#647f4f 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
#b6d4a0
protanopia
#d1d1a0 · ΔE00 8.8
deuteranopia
#cccca1 · ΔE00 8.9
tritanopia
#c6c6f6 · ΔE00 35.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApple Cream at ΔE00 1.135: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Apple CreamΔE00 1.135 · #b8d7a6
- ApiumΔE00 1.628 · #b5d0a2
- GreenhornΔE00 2.002 · #b2cc9a
- Fava BeanΔE00 2.1 · #bad09d
- Embroidered SilkΔE00 2.118 · #b8dca7
- Witty GreenΔE00 2.479 · #b1d99d
- Oh PistachioΔE00 2.631 · #abca99
- Garden SpotΔE00 2.649 · #b1ca95
- Winter Willow GreenΔE00 2.731 · #c1d8ac
- Desert CactusΔE00 2.776 · #afca9d
- Bowling GreenΔE00 2.792 · #bfdeaf
- Pistachio GreenΔE00 2.825 · #a9d39e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.