Crystal Gem
#79d0a7
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#79d0a7
RGB
121, 208, 167
OKLCh
79.1% 0.104 162.3°
CIELAB (D50)
77.2, -34.5, 11.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 34.5; on black, Lc -68.1. 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 19.0 and 19.8 and 37.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.84:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.39:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.39:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#2a8661 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#79d0a7
protanopia
#c9c9a7 · ΔE00 19.0
deuteranopia
#bcbca9 · ΔE00 19.8
tritanopia
#acacff · ΔE00 37.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPharaoh’s Jade at ΔE00 1.316: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pharaoh’s JadeΔE00 1.316 · #83d1a9
- Tadorna TealΔE00 1.706 · #7ad7ad
- Minted EleganceΔE00 2.171 · #6ec9a3
- Fresco GreenΔE00 2.182 · #7bd9ad
- MaroonedΔE00 2.475 · #86cdab
- Aquamarine OceanΔE00 2.575 · #82cdad
- Intense JadeΔE00 2.619 · #68c89d
- Sea TreasureΔE00 2.738 · #78d1b1
- Jocose JadeΔE00 2.997 · #77cc99
- Aquarium BlueΔE00 3.143 · #66cdaa
- Park Green FlatΔE00 3.249 · #88c9a6
- Foul GreenΔE00 3.294 · #85c7a1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.