HueComb

Garden of Eden

#7fa771

A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#7fa771

RGB

127, 167, 113

OKLCh

68.5% 0.088 137.8°

CIELAB (D50)

64.5, -21.9, 23.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.9; on black, Lc -48.9. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 11.2 and 11.3 and 41.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.74:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.67:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.67:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5a814d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#7fa771

protanopia

#a3a371 · ΔE00 11.2

deuteranopia

#9d9d72 · ΔE00 11.3

tritanopia

#9595d8 · ΔE00 41.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReady Lawn at ΔE00 0.915: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.