Verdant Haven
#84a97c
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
#84a97c
RGB
132, 169, 124
OKLCh
69.5% 0.076 140.1°
CIELAB (D50)
65.6, -19.7, 19.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% 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 51.4; on black, Lc -50.5. 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 11.5 and 38.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.64:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.95:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.95:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5c8055 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
#84a97c
protanopia
#a5a57c · ΔE00 11.2
deuteranopia
#9f9f7d · ΔE00 11.5
tritanopia
#9898da · ΔE00 38.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreyish Green at ΔE00 1.3: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Greyish GreenΔE00 1.3 · #82a67d
- Lounge GreenΔE00 1.743 · #8ba97f
- Lush FieldsΔE00 1.957 · #88aa77
- CressidaΔE00 2.018 · #8aae7c
- Baby SpinachΔE00 2.073 · #89a882
- Garden of EdenΔE00 2.385 · #7fa771
- RivergrassΔE00 2.584 · #84a27b
- Ready LawnΔE00 2.608 · #7ba570
- Frog HollowΔE00 2.651 · #7da270
- Moss CandyΔE00 2.719 · #8aa775
- Hierba SantaΔE00 2.767 · #77a373
- Forest ShadeΔE00 2.885 · #91ac80
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.