HueComb

Kiwi

#749e4e

A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#749e4e

RGB

116, 158, 78

OKLCh

65.0% 0.119 131.8°

CIELAB (D50)

60.7, -25.5, 36.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.1; on black, Lc -43.7. 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 10.9 and 10.7 and 46.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.11:1 — large text only

Black text

6.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5a8232 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#749e4e

protanopia

#9a9a4e · ΔE00 10.9

deuteranopia

#939350 · ΔE00 10.7

tritanopia

#8b8bc8 · ΔE00 46.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUnakite at ΔE00 0.938: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.