Money
#7b9a6d
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
#7b9a6d
RGB
123, 154, 109
OKLCh
65.1% 0.074 136.2°
CIELAB (D50)
60.3, -17.7, 20.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 58.5; on black, Lc -43.3. 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 9.9 and 10.1 and 36.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.14:1 — large text only
Black text
6.69:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.69:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#617f53 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
#7b9a6d
protanopia
#97976d · ΔE00 9.9
deuteranopia
#92926e · ΔE00 10.1
tritanopia
#8c8cc0 · ΔE00 36.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWild Thyme at ΔE00 0.769: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Wild ThymeΔE00 0.769 · #7e9c6f
- AmuletΔE00 1.187 · #7d9d72
- Botanical GreenΔE00 1.554 · #77976e
- MosslandsΔE00 1.632 · #779966
- Mesa VerdeΔE00 1.88 · #7f976c
- Horenso GreenΔE00 1.969 · #789b73
- Pea AubergineΔE00 2.065 · #7c9865
- Sleepy HollowΔE00 2.092 · #839c6d
- Van Gogh OlivesΔE00 2.156 · #759465
- Reseda GreenΔE00 2.233 · #75946b
- Green EyesΔE00 2.287 · #7d956d
- Blackthorn GreenΔE00 2.344 · #739c69
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.