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#88aa77

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

Hex

#88aa77

RGB

136, 170, 119

OKLCh

69.9% 0.081 135.5°

CIELAB (D50)

66.1, -19.3, 22.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 39% 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 50.8; on black, Lc -51.1. 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 10.0 and 10.2 and 38.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.60:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.06:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.06:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5f804f 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

#88aa77

protanopia

#a7a777 · ΔE00 10.0

deuteranopia

#a1a178 · ΔE00 10.2

tritanopia

#9a9ad3 · ΔE00 38.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCressida at ΔE00 1.269: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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