Backyard
#879877
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
#879877
RGB
135, 152, 119
OKLCh
65.7% 0.051 129.9°
CIELAB (D50)
60.8, -10.9, 15.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 29% 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 57.9; on black, Lc -43.9. 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 6.8 and 7.0 and 26.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.09:1 — large text only
Black text
6.79:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.79:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6c7c5c 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
#879877
protanopia
#969677 · ΔE00 6.8
deuteranopia
#939377 · ΔE00 7.0
tritanopia
#9090aa · ΔE00 26.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFallout Grey at ΔE00 0.432: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fallout GreyΔE00 0.432 · #889977
- Laurel TreeΔE00 1.079 · #889779
- Old GreenΔE00 1.177 · #839573
- Catalina GreenΔE00 1.432 · #859475
- Sweet FlorenceΔE00 1.49 · #8a9b76
- Royal OakleafΔE00 1.788 · #879473
- LeafletΔE00 1.8 · #8b987b
- Herbal ScentΔE00 1.975 · #8e9b7c
- Usuao BlueΔE00 2.029 · #8c9c76
- Eat Your PeasΔE00 2.705 · #80987a
- Chic ShadeΔE00 2.914 · #7c9270
- New LifeΔE00 3.035 · #7c916e
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.