HueComb

Green Envy

#77aa00

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

Hex

#77aa00

RGB

119, 170, 0

OKLCh

67.6% 0.177 128.0°

CIELAB (D50)

64.1, -32.8, 64.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.4; on black, Lc -48.4. 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 11.4 and 11.1 and 54.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.79:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.53:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.53:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5b8300 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.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#77aa00

protanopia

#a5a500 · ΔE00 11.4

deuteranopia

#9d9d0f · ΔE00 11.1

tritanopia

#9494d4 · ΔE00 54.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlus Ultra at ΔE00 0.579: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Plus UltraΔE00 0.579 · #78ac01
  • Bevelled GrassΔE00 1.314 · #75ac16
  • Lima SombrioΔE00 1.561 · #7aac21
  • Hillsbrad GrassΔE00 1.692 · #7fa91f
  • ChristiΔE00 2.115 · #71a91d
  • Support GreenΔE00 2.196 · #78a300
  • Appetising AsparagusΔE00 2.907 · #66aa00
  • Avocado GreenΔE00 3.027 · #87a922
  • Guardian of GardensΔE00 3.097 · #88aa22
  • German HopΔE00 3.177 · #89ac27
  • UFO Defense GreenΔE00 3.21 · #88aa11
  • Dark SlimelimeΔE00 3.271 · #66aa11

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