Vegetation
#5ccd97
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#5ccd97
RGB
92, 205, 151
OKLCh
76.8% 0.131 160.2°
CIELAB (D50)
74.8, -43.2, 16.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 37.8; on black, Lc -64.6. 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 20.7 and 20.7 and 42.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.97:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.63:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.63:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008859 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
#5ccd97
protanopia
#c4c497 · ΔE00 20.7
deuteranopia
#b5b599 · ΔE00 20.7
tritanopia
#a2a2ff · ΔE00 42.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVan Gogh Green at ΔE00 1.317: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Van Gogh GreenΔE00 1.317 · #65ce95
- Enamelled DragonΔE00 2.681 · #54c589
- Intense JadeΔE00 2.761 · #68c89d
- Green GalaΔE00 2.894 · #72c895
- Jocose JadeΔE00 3.043 · #77cc99
- Dark ShamrockΔE00 3.255 · #33cc99
- Felt GreenΔE00 3.533 · #6fc391
- Garish GreenΔE00 3.671 · #51bf8a
- Mint JellyΔE00 3.679 · #45cea2
- Garden GlowΔE00 3.936 · #7dcc98
- Magical MalachiteΔE00 3.939 · #22cc88
- Crystal GemΔE00 3.96 · #79d0a7
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.