HueComb

Bud Green

#79b465

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

Hex

#79b465

RGB

121, 180, 101

OKLCh

71.0% 0.126 138.2°

CIELAB (D50)

67.8, -31.2, 33.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.3; on black, Lc -53.7. 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 13.8 and 13.5 and 49.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.46:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.53:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.53:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4b8437 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

#79b465

protanopia

#afaf65 · ΔE00 13.8

deuteranopia

#a5a567 · ΔE00 13.5

tritanopia

#9b9bf7 · ΔE00 49.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoon to Be Hay at ΔE00 0.904: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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