Fiddle-Leaf Fig
#a6c875
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a6c875
RGB
166, 200, 117
OKLCh
78.9% 0.116 127.1°
CIELAB (D50)
76.7, -22.1, 37.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.7; on black, Lc -66.8. 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 8.7 and 8.6 and 41.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.14:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.14:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#62802e 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
#a6c875
protanopia
#c5c575 · ΔE00 8.7
deuteranopia
#bfbf76 · ΔE00 8.6
tritanopia
#b8b8e3 · ΔE00 41.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlverda at ΔE00 0.982: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AlverdaΔE00 0.982 · #a5c970
- Wonder WoodsΔE00 1.077 · #abcb7b
- Lick of LimeΔE00 1.401 · #a6cc72
- Sour FaceΔE00 1.405 · #adc979
- Opaline GreenΔE00 2.206 · #a3c57d
- Green PeridotΔE00 2.327 · #a7c668
- GreenscapeΔE00 2.392 · #a5cf7e
- Davao GreenΔE00 2.654 · #b1d27b
- Old LimeΔE00 2.668 · #aec571
- Jade LimeΔE00 2.731 · #9dca7b
- Livery GreenΔE00 2.758 · #a8d275
- Bilious GreenΔE00 2.768 · #a9d171
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.