Crispy Crunch
#7a8f68
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#7a8f68
RGB
122, 143, 104
OKLCh
62.3% 0.061 131.0°
CIELAB (D50)
56.9, -13.4, 18.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 36% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.8; on black, Lc -38.9. 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 7.7 and 7.9 and 30.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.53:1 — large text only
Black text
5.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#697d57 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
#7a8f68
protanopia
#8d8d68 · ΔE00 7.7
deuteranopia
#898969 · ΔE00 7.9
tritanopia
#8585a6 · ΔE00 30.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSaladin at ΔE00 1.293: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SaladinΔE00 1.293 · #7e8f69
- New LifeΔE00 1.43 · #7c916e
- Chic ShadeΔE00 1.941 · #7c9270
- Old BambooΔE00 2.04 · #769164
- Green EyesΔE00 2.053 · #7d956d
- Watercress SpiceΔE00 2.057 · #748c69
- Fern CanopyΔE00 2.217 · #758a5f
- VillandryΔE00 2.311 · #728f66
- Moss RingΔE00 2.512 · #729067
- Chá Lǜ GreenΔE00 2.514 · #77926f
- Mesa VerdeΔE00 2.751 · #7f976c
- Old GreenΔE00 2.886 · #839573
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.