HueComb

Basil

#879f84

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

#879f84

RGB

135, 159, 132

OKLCh

67.6% 0.048 142.0°

CIELAB (D50)

63.0, -12.7, 11.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 21% 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 54.9; on black, Lc -46.9. 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 9.5 and 9.8 and 29.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.87:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#667d63 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

#879f84

protanopia

#9d9d84 · ΔE00 9.5

deuteranopia

#989885 · ΔE00 9.8

tritanopia

#9494c3 · ΔE00 29.6

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 1.073: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.