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.
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
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.