HueComb

Botanist

#9ad28c

A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#9ad28c

RGB

154, 210, 140

OKLCh

80.8% 0.112 139.5°

CIELAB (D50)

79.0, -28.6, 28.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.0; on black, Lc -70.7. 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 13.3 and 13.1 and 43.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.75:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.97:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.97:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4f8341 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#9ad28c

protanopia

#cdcd8c · ΔE00 13.3

deuteranopia

#c4c48e · ΔE00 13.1

tritanopia

#b9b9ff · ΔE00 43.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDentist Green at ΔE00 1.021: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.