Lichen
#8ebaa6
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
#8ebaa6
RGB
142, 186, 166
OKLCh
75.1% 0.055 165.4°
CIELAB (D50)
71.9, -18.4, 5.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% 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 42.4; on black, Lc -59.8. 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 15.0 and 15.7 and 32.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.72:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.72:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#557f6d 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
#8ebaa6
protanopia
#b6b6a6 · ΔE00 15.0
deuteranopia
#afafa7 · ΔE00 15.7
tritanopia
#a6a6ff · ΔE00 32.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIndian Ocean at ΔE00 1.658: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Indian OceanΔE00 1.658 · #86b7a1
- Mild EvergreenΔE00 1.897 · #8ebbac
- Source GreenΔE00 1.959 · #84b6a2
- Greyed JadeΔE00 2.228 · #92b8a0
- Le MaxΔE00 2.523 · #85b2a1
- Bella GreenΔE00 2.609 · #93c3b1
- Patina HueΔE00 2.624 · #83baa8
- Summer GreenΔE00 2.766 · #8fb69c
- Mid-century GemΔE00 2.812 · #81b39c
- Baby CakeΔE00 2.944 · #87bea3
- Spearmint FrostingΔE00 2.949 · #8dc2a8
- Scenic ViewΔE00 3.03 · #95bfb2
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.