HueComb

Isle of Dreams

#bcccb5

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

#bcccb5

RGB

188, 204, 181

OKLCh

82.7% 0.036 136.0°

CIELAB (D50)

80.3, -8.8, 9.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 30.0; on black, Lc -72.8. 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 6.7 and 7.0 and 23.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.69:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.44:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.44:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6c7b66 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

#bcccb5

protanopia

#cacab5 · ΔE00 6.7

deuteranopia

#c7c7b5 · ΔE00 7.0

tritanopia

#c4c4e3 · ΔE00 23.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHealing Aloe at ΔE00 0.666: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Healing AloeΔE00 0.666 · #b9cab3
  • Soft FrothΔE00 0.801 · #bdccb3
  • Succulent GardenΔE00 0.836 · #bccbb2
  • Bok ChoyΔE00 0.837 · #bccab3
  • Topiary TintΔE00 0.979 · #bbc9b2
  • RhysΔE00 1.087 · #beceb4
  • ComposedΔE00 1.402 · #bbc8b2
  • Aqua DreamΔE00 1.556 · #b7c9b5
  • Sunlit SeaΔE00 1.591 · #bbcfb9
  • Pastel Grey GreenΔE00 1.773 · #bccbb9
  • Kiss of MintΔE00 2.051 · #bdcfb2
  • Clay AshΔE00 2.087 · #bdc8b3

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