HueComb

Feijoa

#a5d785

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

Hex

#a5d785

RGB

165, 215, 133

OKLCh

82.5% 0.121 134.0°

CIELAB (D50)

81.0, -27.7, 35.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.0; on black, Lc -73.9. 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 11.8 and 11.6 and 44.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.66:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.66:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.66:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#558333 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

#a5d785

protanopia

#d2d285 · ΔE00 11.8

deuteranopia

#caca87 · ΔE00 11.6

tritanopia

#c0c0ff · ΔE00 44.9

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 1.401: 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.