HueComb

Gossip

#9fd385

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

Hex

#9fd385

RGB

159, 211, 133

OKLCh

81.2% 0.118 135.7°

CIELAB (D50)

79.5, -28.1, 33.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.3; on black, Lc -71.5. 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 12.3 and 12.1 and 45.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.73:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.13:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.13:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#538338 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

#9fd385

protanopia

#cece85 · ΔE00 12.3

deuteranopia

#c6c687 · ΔE00 12.1

tritanopia

#bcbcff · ΔE00 45.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCelery Sprig at ΔE00 0.861: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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