Mother Earth
#849c8d
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
#849c8d
RGB
132, 156, 141
OKLCh
67.0% 0.035 157.9°
CIELAB (D50)
62.2, -11.1, 4.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 22% 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 56.0; on black, Lc -45.8. 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 10.2 and 10.6 and 26.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.95:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.12:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.12:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#657c6e 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
#849c8d
protanopia
#9a9a8d · ΔE00 10.2
deuteranopia
#95958e · ΔE00 10.6
tritanopia
#9191c7 · ΔE00 26.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSeiji Green at ΔE00 1.203: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Seiji GreenΔE00 1.203 · #819c8b
- Paradise FoundΔE00 1.839 · #83988c
- Padded LeafΔE00 2.22 · #859e94
- Parisian PatinaΔE00 2.249 · #7d9b89
- Australian JadeΔE00 2.271 · #84a194
- Modern MintΔE00 2.319 · #88a395
- Hillside ViewΔE00 2.433 · #8da090
- WintessaΔE00 2.487 · #8ba494
- Birch ForestΔE00 2.509 · #899a8b
- Track GreenΔE00 2.625 · #849e88
- MossleafΔE00 2.641 · #8c9d8f
- Poppy LeafΔE00 2.679 · #88a496
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.