Sage
#87ae73
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#87ae73
RGB
135, 174, 115
OKLCh
70.7% 0.093 135.4°
CIELAB (D50)
67.1, -22.0, 25.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 49.4; on black, Lc -52.6. 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 10.7 and 10.7 and 41.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.52:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.33:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.33:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5c8148 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
#87ae73
protanopia
#aaaa73 · ΔE00 10.7
deuteranopia
#a4a474 · ΔE00 10.7
tritanopia
#9c9cdc · ΔE00 41.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWyvern Green at ΔE00 1.527: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Wyvern GreenΔE00 1.527 · #86a96f
- Hakusai GreenΔE00 1.532 · #88b378
- Organic GreenΔE00 1.543 · #7fac6e
- Sage GardenΔE00 1.586 · #7fab70
- Lush FieldsΔE00 2.005 · #88aa77
- Peeled AsparagusΔE00 2.013 · #87a96b
- CressidaΔE00 2.077 · #8aae7c
- Flavoparmelia CaperataΔE00 2.333 · #8fb67b
- Snipped ChiveΔE00 2.43 · #92b57b
- Geranium LeafΔE00 2.44 · #90ac74
- Garden of EdenΔE00 2.446 · #7fa771
- Joshua TreeΔE00 2.706 · #7fb377
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.