Foliage
#95b388
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
#95b388
RGB
149, 179, 136
OKLCh
73.3% 0.069 136.3°
CIELAB (D50)
69.8, -16.7, 18.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 31% 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 45.6; on black, Lc -56.5. 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 9.7 and 9.9 and 35.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.31:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#627e56 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
#95b388
protanopia
#b0b088 · ΔE00 9.7
deuteranopia
#abab89 · ΔE00 9.9
tritanopia
#a5a5da · ΔE00 35.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMistletoe Kiss at ΔE00 0.666: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mistletoe KissΔE00 0.666 · #98b489
- Easygoing GreenΔE00 0.796 · #98b389
- Fair GreenΔE00 1.468 · #92af88
- Pear CactusΔE00 1.542 · #91af88
- BasiliskΔE00 1.715 · #9ab38d
- Forest ShadeΔE00 2.109 · #91ac80
- BrookviewΔE00 2.112 · #99b792
- Green SnowΔE00 2.357 · #9eb788
- Dew GreenΔE00 2.495 · #97b391
- Mountain FernΔE00 2.497 · #94b491
- Flora GreenΔE00 2.62 · #91ad8a
- Seafoam GreenΔE00 2.729 · #99bb88
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.