Bleached Olive
#55bb88
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#55bb88
RGB
85, 187, 136
OKLCh
71.8% 0.122 159.2°
CIELAB (D50)
68.9, -40.2, 16.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.5; on black, Lc -55.5. 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 19.9 and 19.9 and 43.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.37:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#118858 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
#55bb88
protanopia
#b3b388 · ΔE00 19.9
deuteranopia
#a5a58a · ΔE00 19.9
tritanopia
#9494ff · ΔE00 43.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGarish Green at ΔE00 1.16: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Garish GreenΔE00 1.16 · #51bf8a
- Aragon GreenΔE00 1.34 · #47ba87
- Techno TurquoiseΔE00 1.45 · #60bd8e
- Spearmint BurstΔE00 1.646 · #5cbe86
- Green GarterΔE00 1.724 · #61ba85
- Jade CreamΔE00 1.879 · #59b587
- Garden VarietyΔE00 2.01 · #66bb8d
- Young BambooΔE00 2.192 · #68be8d
- Silver TreeΔE00 2.219 · #67be90
- KatydidΔE00 2.412 · #66bc91
- Ming GreenΔE00 2.491 · #41b57e
- Crazy EyesΔE00 2.637 · #5eb68d
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.