Ultra Green
#7eba4d
A green that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#7eba4d
RGB
126, 186, 77
OKLCh
72.4% 0.155 133.1°
CIELAB (D50)
69.7, -34.0, 47.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.8; on black, Lc -56.3. 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 13.4 and 13.0 and 54.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.33:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4c8507 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
#7eba4d
protanopia
#b5b54c · ΔE00 13.4
deuteranopia
#abab50 · ΔE00 13.0
tritanopia
#a0a0f6 · ΔE00 54.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMakin It Rain at ΔE00 1.634: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Makin It RainΔE00 1.634 · #88bb55
- Spring SproutΔE00 1.685 · #86ba4a
- Turtle GreenΔE00 1.721 · #75b84f
- Taurus Forest FernΔE00 1.956 · #77be52
- Night VisionΔE00 2.024 · #77bb55
- Sparkling AppleΔE00 2.291 · #77b244
- Green PearΔE00 2.32 · #79be58
- SavoyΔE00 2.369 · #87b550
- Fierce MantisΔE00 2.607 · #7fc15c
- ConceptualΔE00 2.621 · #7ac34f
- Nasty GreenΔE00 2.782 · #70b23f
- Pure AppleΔE00 3.267 · #6ab54b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.