Prairie
#0b9d6a
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#0b9d6a
RGB
11, 157, 106
OKLCh
61.6% 0.135 161.2°
CIELAB (D50)
57.2, -45.4, 16.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.7; on black, Lc -40.0. 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 21.6 and 21.4 and 46.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.47:1 — large text only
Black text
6.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#00885b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#0b9d6a
protanopia
#95956a · ΔE00 21.6
deuteranopia
#86866d · ΔE00 21.4
tritanopia
#7373ff · ΔE00 46.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHighlighter Turquoise at ΔE00 0.528: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Highlighter TurquoiseΔE00 0.528 · #009e6c
- SurgeonΔE00 0.649 · #009f6b
- Hassan II MosqueΔE00 0.734 · #009e6d
- Jitterbug JadeΔE00 1.103 · #019d6e
- Green CyanΔE00 1.361 · #009966
- Starship TrooperΔE00 1.56 · #229966
- Biel-Tan GreenΔE00 1.795 · #1ba169
- BejewelledΔE00 1.917 · #25a26f
- Bulma HairΔE00 2.189 · #359e6b
- Emerald Light GreenΔE00 2.192 · #00a267
- Teal GreenΔE00 2.196 · #25a36f
- Green HazeΔE00 2.388 · #01a368
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.