HueComb

Bok Choy

#bccab3

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

#bccab3

RGB

188, 202, 179

OKLCh

82.2% 0.035 133.0°

CIELAB (D50)

79.8, -8.1, 9.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 15% 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 30.9; on black, Lc -71.9. 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 6.0 and 6.2 and 21.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.72:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.24:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.24:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6e7b66 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#bccab3

protanopia

#c8c8b3 · ΔE00 6.0

deuteranopia

#c6c6b3 · ΔE00 6.2

tritanopia

#c3c3dc · ΔE00 21.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTopiary Tint at ΔE00 0.252: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Topiary TintΔE00 0.252 · #bbc9b2
  • ComposedΔE00 0.647 · #bbc8b2
  • Succulent GardenΔE00 0.748 · #bccbb2
  • Soft FrothΔE00 0.833 · #bdccb3
  • Isle of DreamsΔE00 0.837 · #bcccb5
  • Healing AloeΔE00 1.121 · #b9cab3
  • Clay AshΔE00 1.338 · #bdc8b3
  • RhysΔE00 1.427 · #beceb4
  • TamboonΔE00 1.445 · #bdc8af
  • PattipanΔE00 1.82 · #bcc6b1
  • Pastel Grey GreenΔE00 1.869 · #bccbb9
  • Aqua DreamΔE00 1.939 · #b7c9b5

11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.