Nature

#bfd5b3

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

#bfd5b3

RGB

191, 213, 179

OKLCh

84.7% 0.052 134.5°

CIELAB (D50)

82.9, -12.3, 14.3

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 21% 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 26.0; on black, Lc -77.1. 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 8.1 and 8.3 and 29.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.57:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.38:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.38:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#697d5e 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

#bfd5b3

protanopia

#d3d3b3 · ΔE00 8.1

deuteranopia

#cfcfb4 · ΔE00 8.3

tritanopia

#cbcbf2 · ΔE00 29.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolden Elm at ΔE00 0.76: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Golden ElmΔE00 0.76 · #bdd5b1
  • Meadow GrassΔE00 1.005 · #c1d6b1
  • Jaded LimeΔE00 1.355 · #bbd3ad
  • GaminΔE00 1.487 · #bfd1af
  • Apple IceΔE00 1.544 · #bdd0b1
  • RomaineΔE00 1.771 · #c0d2ad
  • JardinΔE00 1.799 · #bdd0ab
  • Morris LeafΔE00 1.825 · #c2d3af
  • Pale TidepoolΔE00 1.897 · #c8dcbb
  • GalwayΔE00 1.961 · #c4ddbb
  • Lime TaffyΔE00 2.108 · #bad1b5
  • Hamster HabitatΔE00 2.115 · #c4d6af

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