Toad
#748d70
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#748d70
RGB
116, 141, 112
OKLCh
61.6% 0.052 141.2°
CIELAB (D50)
56.0, -13.6, 12.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 25% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.9; on black, Lc -37.8. 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 9.8 and 10.1 and 30.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.63:1 — large text only
Black text
5.79:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.79:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#657d61 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
#748d70
protanopia
#8a8a70 · ΔE00 9.8
deuteranopia
#868671 · ΔE00 10.1
tritanopia
#8181b1 · ΔE00 30.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLoden Frost at ΔE00 1.233: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Loden FrostΔE00 1.233 · #788f74
- WonderlandΔE00 1.419 · #718a70
- Forest PathΔE00 1.582 · #708d6c
- LaurelΔE00 1.926 · #6e8d71
- Watercress SpiceΔE00 2.028 · #748c69
- KashmirΔE00 2.159 · #6f8d6a
- Chá Lǜ GreenΔE00 2.355 · #77926f
- Shale GreenΔE00 2.45 · #6b886b
- Shallot BulbΔE00 2.458 · #7b8d73
- Ivy WreathΔE00 2.569 · #708d76
- Chic ShadeΔE00 2.732 · #7c9270
- Thyme and PlaceΔE00 2.806 · #6f8770
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.