HueComb

Mantis

#74c365

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

Hex

#74c365

RGB

116, 195, 101

OKLCh

74.4% 0.151 140.5°

CIELAB (D50)

72.1, -39.1, 39.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.2; on black, Lc -60.0. 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 16.4 and 16.0 and 51.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#398729 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

#74c365

protanopia

#bcbc64 · ΔE00 16.4

deuteranopia

#b1b168 · ΔE00 16.0

tritanopia

#a2a2ff · ΔE00 51.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEnergise at ΔE00 1.91: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.