Frozen Forest
#cfe8b6
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
#cfe8b6
RGB
207, 232, 182
OKLCh
90.0% 0.071 129.4°
CIELAB (D50)
89.2, -15.0, 21.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 30% 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 15.9; on black, Lc -87.8. 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 7.6 and 7.7 and 31.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.32:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.87:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.87:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#687e50 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
#cfe8b6
protanopia
#e5e5b6 · ΔE00 7.6
deuteranopia
#e1e1b7 · ΔE00 7.7
tritanopia
#dcdcff · ΔE00 31.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFairway Mist at ΔE00 0.53: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fairway MistΔE00 0.53 · #cde8b6
- Cool PeridotΔE00 0.982 · #cae4b2
- Green ReflectionΔE00 1.377 · #d1e5b5
- Imbued With MintΔE00 1.69 · #ceebb2
- Viridine GreenΔE00 2.013 · #c8e0ab
- Lasting ThoughtsΔE00 2.234 · #d4e6b1
- Lime CreamΔE00 2.307 · #d0e3ad
- Iced AvocadoΔE00 2.339 · #c8e4b9
- Toxic EssenceΔE00 2.358 · #cceebb
- Maroccan TeaΔE00 2.48 · #d0f0c0
- Envious PastelΔE00 2.665 · #ddf3c2
- ChiconΔE00 2.77 · #d9eeb4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.