Aloe Tip
#8a9480
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
#8a9480
RGB
138, 148, 128
OKLCh
65.3% 0.031 129.0°
CIELAB (D50)
60.1, -6.6, 9.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 18% 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 58.8; on black, Lc -42.9. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 17.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.17:1 — large text only
Black text
6.63:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.63:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#707a67 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
#8a9480
protanopia
#939380 · ΔE00 4.8
deuteranopia
#919180 · ΔE00 4.9
tritanopia
#8f8f9e · ΔE00 17.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEucalyptus Wreath at ΔE00 0.678: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Eucalyptus WreathΔE00 0.678 · #88927e
- Matte Sage GreenΔE00 0.875 · #8a9381
- Explorer GreenΔE00 0.946 · #8b9380
- Agreeable GreenΔE00 1.259 · #8e9683
- Hillside GreenΔE00 1.444 · #8f9783
- Linden SpearΔE00 1.638 · #8e9985
- Ginkgo TreeΔE00 1.914 · #858f79
- Veranda GreenΔE00 2.095 · #8e977e
- RamonaΔE00 2.155 · #8f9a88
- Silver Linden GreyΔE00 2.163 · #859382
- EyreΔE00 2.392 · #8f9482
- Dark SkyΔE00 2.42 · #909989
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.