Parisian Patina
#7d9b89
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
#7d9b89
RGB
125, 155, 137
OKLCh
66.1% 0.043 158.7°
CIELAB (D50)
61.3, -13.7, 5.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 28% 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 57.1; on black, Lc -44.6. 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 11.9 and 12.4 and 29.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.03:1 — large text only
Black text
6.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#607d6c 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
#7d9b89
protanopia
#989889 · ΔE00 11.9
deuteranopia
#93938a · ΔE00 12.4
tritanopia
#8d8dce · ΔE00 29.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSeiji Green at ΔE00 1.099: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Seiji GreenΔE00 1.099 · #819c8b
- Mild GreenΔE00 1.325 · #789885
- Fish Camp WoodsΔE00 1.889 · #7a9682
- Sea RadishΔE00 2.048 · #799781
- Mid CypressΔE00 2.161 · #779781
- Mossy BenchΔE00 2.205 · #83a28f
- Mother EarthΔE00 2.249 · #849c8d
- Track GreenΔE00 2.337 · #849e88
- Bitter Clover GreenΔE00 2.344 · #769789
- Bristol GreenΔE00 2.824 · #83a492
- Silent SageΔE00 2.828 · #729988
- Australian JadeΔE00 2.874 · #84a194
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.