HueComb

Mossy Glossy

#789b4a

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

Hex

#789b4a

RGB

120, 155, 74

OKLCh

64.5% 0.116 128.6°

CIELAB (D50)

60.0, -22.9, 37.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.0; on black, Lc -42.8. 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 9.4 and 9.2 and 43.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.19:1 — large text only

Black text

6.59:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.59:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5f812f 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

#789b4a

protanopia

#98984a · ΔE00 9.4

deuteranopia

#92924c · ΔE00 9.2

tritanopia

#8b8bba · ΔE00 43.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSerene Sage at ΔE00 1.31: 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.