HueComb

Broccoli

#87b364

A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#87b364

RGB

135, 179, 100

OKLCh

71.6% 0.117 132.5°

CIELAB (D50)

68.4, -25.8, 35.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 47.6; on black, Lc -54.4. 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 11.1 and 10.9 and 46.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.42:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.66:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.66:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#598234 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

#87b364

protanopia

#afaf64 · ΔE00 11.1

deuteranopia

#a8a866 · ΔE00 10.9

tritanopia

#9f9fe1 · ΔE00 46.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNasturtium Leaf at ΔE00 0.989: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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