HueComb

Maroccan Tea

#d0f0c0

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

#d0f0c0

RGB

208, 240, 192

OKLCh

92.0% 0.072 135.2°

CIELAB (D50)

91.5, -17.2, 19.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.0; on black, Lc -92.0. 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 9.5 and 9.7 and 29.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.24:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.91:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.91:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#627f53 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

#d0f0c0

protanopia

#ededc0 · ΔE00 9.5

deuteranopia

#e7e7c1 · ΔE00 9.7

tritanopia

#e1e1ff · ΔE00 29.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isToxic Essence at ΔE00 0.948: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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