OMGreen
#8ca891
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
#8ca891
RGB
140, 168, 145
OKLCh
70.4% 0.045 150.3°
CIELAB (D50)
66.2, -13.5, 8.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 24% 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 50.5; on black, Lc -51.4. 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 10.9 and 11.3 and 30.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#627d67 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
#8ca891
protanopia
#a5a591 · ΔE00 10.9
deuteranopia
#a0a092 · ΔE00 11.3
tritanopia
#9b9bd6 · ΔE00 30.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEnvy 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.
- EnvyΔE00 1.01 · #8ba58f
- PeaslakeΔE00 1.127 · #8caa95
- Natural HarmonyΔE00 1.656 · #91aa90
- Alga MossΔE00 1.677 · #8da98d
- FluorineΔE00 2.431 · #8faa8c
- Pale WillowΔE00 2.502 · #89ab98
- Mossy BenchΔE00 2.649 · #83a28f
- WintessaΔE00 2.726 · #8ba494
- Sonoma SageΔE00 2.859 · #90a58a
- Bristol GreenΔE00 2.864 · #83a492
- Gallery GreenΔE00 2.905 · #88a385
- Track GreenΔE00 3.041 · #849e88
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.