Pistachio
#93c572
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#93c572
RGB
147, 197, 114
OKLCh
76.9% 0.124 133.9°
CIELAB (D50)
74.5, -28.1, 36.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.8; on black, Lc -63.6. 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 12.0 and 11.7 and 48.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.01:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#548331 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
#93c572
protanopia
#c0c072 · ΔE00 12.0
deuteranopia
#b8b874 · ΔE00 11.7
tritanopia
#afaffc · ΔE00 48.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLime Parfait at ΔE00 0.882: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lime ParfaitΔE00 0.882 · #95c577
- Jaunty GreenΔE00 1.301 · #8dc36a
- Laudable LimeΔE00 1.751 · #8cbf6f
- Jade LimeΔE00 1.868 · #9dca7b
- Apple OrchardΔE00 2.043 · #93c96a
- Lima Bean GreenΔE00 2.217 · #88be69
- Frenzy PlantΔE00 2.429 · #9cc780
- Fresh Cut GrassΔE00 2.457 · #91cb7d
- LeticiazΔE00 2.506 · #95be76
- ApplegateΔE00 2.6 · #8ac479
- Cold SpringΔE00 2.831 · #88bb66
- Whipped PistachioΔE00 2.922 · #9cca84
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.