Basil Smash
#b7e1a1
A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#b7e1a1
RGB
183, 225, 161
OKLCh
86.4% 0.096 135.1°
CIELAB (D50)
85.3, -22.8, 26.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 38% 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 -81.1. 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 10.7 and 10.7 and 38.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.47:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.30:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.30:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5b8146 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
#b7e1a1
protanopia
#dddda1 · ΔE00 10.7
deuteranopia
#d6d6a2 · ΔE00 10.7
tritanopia
#ceceff · ΔE00 38.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMadang at ΔE00 1.424: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- MadangΔE00 1.424 · #b7e3a8
- Pastel PeaΔE00 1.489 · #bee7a5
- Green GooseberryΔE00 1.889 · #b0dfa4
- Witty GreenΔE00 1.917 · #b1d99d
- Cactus SpikeΔE00 2.311 · #c1e0a3
- Embroidered SilkΔE00 2.491 · #b8dca7
- Basilisk LizardΔE00 2.561 · #bcecac
- Field DayΔE00 2.644 · #c5e6a4
- Cool AloeΔE00 2.648 · #a9d99c
- Ice IceΔE00 2.717 · #baebae
- AppetiteΔE00 2.721 · #b1e5aa
- Almost AloeΔE00 2.918 · #bfe5b1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.