Primavera
#6fa77a
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#6fa77a
RGB
111, 167, 122
OKLCh
67.7% 0.089 149.7°
CIELAB (D50)
63.7, -26.4, 17.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.9; on black, Lc -47.9. 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 14.8 and 15.2 and 41.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.81:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.48:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.48:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4c8358 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
#6fa77a
protanopia
#a2a27a · ΔE00 14.8
deuteranopia
#99997b · ΔE00 15.2
tritanopia
#8f8ff1 · ΔE00 41.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Grass Green at ΔE00 0.89: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Light Grass GreenΔE00 0.89 · #70aa7c
- GrowthΔE00 1.964 · #6ca178
- Green GoddessΔE00 2.115 · #76ad83
- Summer GardenΔE00 2.149 · #7aac80
- Green Tea CandyΔE00 2.284 · #65ab7c
- AbominationΔE00 2.343 · #77aa77
- Morning ForestΔE00 2.344 · #6dae81
- Aqua ForestΔE00 2.578 · #5fa777
- Shiny ShamrockΔE00 2.603 · #5fa778
- JadesheenΔE00 2.668 · #77a276
- Hierba SantaΔE00 2.853 · #77a373
- Dusty GreenΔE00 2.881 · #76a973
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.