Green Relict
#7b8762
A yellow 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
#7b8762
RGB
123, 135, 98
OKLCh
60.4% 0.055 122.7°
CIELAB (D50)
54.6, -9.6, 18.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 38% 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 65.8; on black, Lc -35.9. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 20.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.83:1 — large text only
Black text
5.48:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.48:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#707b57 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
#7b8762
protanopia
#868662 · ΔE00 4.9
deuteranopia
#848462 · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#81818a · ΔE00 20.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSwedish Clover at ΔE00 1.389: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Swedish CloverΔE00 1.389 · #7b8867
- Green BushΔE00 1.491 · #7f8866
- Tuscany HillsideΔE00 1.552 · #7e875f
- Sage LeavesΔE00 2.705 · #7b8b5d
- Moss Point GreenΔE00 2.836 · #7e8d60
- SaladinΔE00 3.032 · #7e8f69
- Fern CanopyΔE00 3.076 · #758a5f
- Flax SmokeΔE00 3.186 · #7b8265
- Equatorial ForestΔE00 3.335 · #70855e
- Green CoconutΔE00 3.411 · #868e65
- TerrainΔE00 3.427 · #708157
- Grape VineΔE00 3.472 · #797f5a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.