Leafy Greens
#80bb66
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#80bb66
RGB
128, 187, 102
OKLCh
73.1% 0.131 136.8°
CIELAB (D50)
70.3, -31.7, 36.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.8; on black, Lc -57.3. 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 13.6 and 13.3 and 50.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.28:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.22:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.22:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4c8430 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
#80bb66
protanopia
#b6b666 · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#acac68 · ΔE00 13.3
tritanopia
#a1a1fd · ΔE00 50.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDollar Bill at ΔE00 1.006: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dollar BillΔE00 1.006 · #85bb65
- Hillside GroveΔE00 1.119 · #80bf69
- Lima Bean GreenΔE00 1.381 · #88be69
- Cold SpringΔE00 1.491 · #88bb66
- PrimoΔE00 1.525 · #7cbc6c
- Laudable LimeΔE00 2.05 · #8cbf6f
- Palm TreeΔE00 2.212 · #74b560
- Bud GreenΔE00 2.215 · #79b465
- Green PearΔE00 2.6 · #79be58
- Night VisionΔE00 2.648 · #77bb55
- Fierce MantisΔE00 2.692 · #7fc15c
- Jaunty GreenΔE00 2.728 · #8dc36a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.