Morris Leaf

#c2d3af

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

#c2d3af

RGB

194, 211, 175

OKLCh

84.4% 0.052 128.1°

CIELAB (D50)

82.5, -10.7, 15.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 24% 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 26.6; on black, Lc -76.4. 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 6.4 and 6.5 and 25.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.59:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.23:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.23:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6d7c5b 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

#c2d3af

protanopia

#d1d1af · ΔE00 6.4

deuteranopia

#ceceaf · ΔE00 6.5

tritanopia

#cbcbe3 · ΔE00 25.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRomaine at ΔE00 0.502: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • RomaineΔE00 0.502 · #c0d2ad
  • GaminΔE00 0.875 · #bfd1af
  • Hamster HabitatΔE00 1.035 · #c4d6af
  • JardinΔE00 1.081 · #bdd0ab
  • Meadow GrassΔE00 1.34 · #c1d6b1
  • Hidden HillsΔE00 1.5 · #c5d2b1
  • LandscapeΔE00 1.511 · #c1cfa9
  • Pistachio PuddingΔE00 1.665 · #c6d4ac
  • Spice GardenΔE00 1.7 · #c9d6b4
  • Enamel GreenΔE00 1.807 · #bacca8
  • NatureΔE00 1.825 · #bfd5b3
  • StabilityΔE00 1.866 · #c1d0b2

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