HueComb

Vineyard

#819e84

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

#819e84

RGB

129, 158, 132

OKLCh

67.0% 0.050 147.8°

CIELAB (D50)

62.3, -14.5, 10.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 26% 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 55.8; on black, Lc -46.0. 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 11.1 and 11.4 and 31.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.93:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.16:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.16:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#627e65 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

#819e84

protanopia

#9b9b84 · ΔE00 11.1

deuteranopia

#969685 · ΔE00 11.4

tritanopia

#9191cb · ΔE00 31.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBasswood Green at ΔE00 0.749: 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.