Dollar Bill
#85bb65
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#85bb65
RGB
133, 187, 101
OKLCh
73.4% 0.130 134.8°
CIELAB (D50)
70.6, -30.0, 37.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.4; on black, Lc -57.7. 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 12.7 and 12.5 and 49.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.26:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#51842e 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
#85bb65
protanopia
#b6b665 · ΔE00 12.7
deuteranopia
#adad67 · ΔE00 12.5
tritanopia
#a3a3f6 · ΔE00 49.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCold Spring at ΔE00 0.527: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cold SpringΔE00 0.527 · #88bb66
- Lima Bean GreenΔE00 0.872 · #88be69
- Leafy GreensΔE00 1.006 · #80bb66
- Laudable LimeΔE00 1.684 · #8cbf6f
- Hillside GroveΔE00 1.73 · #80bf69
- Jaunty GreenΔE00 2.22 · #8dc36a
- PrimoΔE00 2.448 · #7cbc6c
- BroccoliΔE00 2.479 · #87b364
- Fierce MantisΔE00 2.615 · #7fc15c
- Green PearΔE00 2.731 · #79be58
- Night VisionΔE00 2.781 · #77bb55
- Nasturtium LeafΔE00 2.792 · #87b369
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.