Beau Monde
#7db39e
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
#7db39e
RGB
125, 179, 158
OKLCh
72.3% 0.065 168.4°
CIELAB (D50)
68.7, -21.9, 4.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.9; on black, Lc -55.1. 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 16.8 and 17.7 and 34.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.81:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.81:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4c816d 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
#7db39e
protanopia
#aeae9e · ΔE00 16.8
deuteranopia
#a6a69f · ΔE00 17.7
tritanopia
#9b9bff · ΔE00 34.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMid-century Gem at ΔE00 1.189: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mid-century GemΔE00 1.189 · #81b39c
- Source GreenΔE00 1.36 · #84b6a2
- Key LargoΔE00 1.433 · #7fb6a4
- Indian OceanΔE00 1.791 · #86b7a1
- Dusty Jade GreenΔE00 2.179 · #71af98
- Le MaxΔE00 2.182 · #85b2a1
- Patina HueΔE00 2.312 · #83baa8
- Peppermint BarΔE00 2.583 · #81bca8
- Nature GreenΔE00 2.617 · #7daf94
- AcapulcoΔE00 2.692 · #75aa94
- Froggy PondΔE00 2.79 · #7fba9e
- Mint Bonbon GreenΔE00 2.845 · #7db6a8
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.