Envy
#8ba58f
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
#8ba58f
RGB
139, 165, 143
OKLCh
69.6% 0.043 149.5°
CIELAB (D50)
65.3, -12.7, 8.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 22% 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 51.8; on black, Lc -50.0. 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 10.4 and 10.8 and 29.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.67:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.88:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.88:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#647d68 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
#8ba58f
protanopia
#a2a28f · ΔE00 10.4
deuteranopia
#9e9e90 · ΔE00 10.8
tritanopia
#9999d0 · ΔE00 29.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOMGreen at ΔE00 1.01: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- OMGreenΔE00 1.01 · #8ca891
- PeaslakeΔE00 1.852 · #8caa95
- Natural HarmonyΔE00 2.075 · #91aa90
- WintessaΔE00 2.187 · #8ba494
- Track GreenΔE00 2.205 · #849e88
- Alga MossΔE00 2.211 · #8da98d
- Mossy BenchΔE00 2.319 · #83a28f
- Sonoma SageΔE00 2.549 · #90a58a
- BasilΔE00 2.684 · #879f84
- Gallery GreenΔE00 2.77 · #88a385
- Bristol GreenΔE00 2.798 · #83a492
- FluorineΔE00 2.903 · #8faa8c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.