Oh Pistachio
#abca99
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#abca99
RGB
171, 202, 153
OKLCh
80.3% 0.075 134.2°
CIELAB (D50)
78.1, -17.5, 21.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 32% 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 33.5; on black, Lc -69.1. 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 9.3 and 9.5 and 36.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.80:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.64:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.64:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#627f51 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
#abca99
protanopia
#c7c799 · ΔE00 9.3
deuteranopia
#c2c29a · ΔE00 9.5
tritanopia
#bcbcf0 · ΔE00 36.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDesert Cactus at ΔE00 1.248: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Desert CactusΔE00 1.248 · #afca9d
- Geddy GreenΔE00 1.501 · #aac69a
- GreenhornΔE00 1.57 · #b2cc9a
- Arcadian GreenΔE00 1.697 · #a3c893
- GingkoΔE00 1.858 · #a3c899
- ApiumΔE00 2.079 · #b5d0a2
- CosΔE00 2.083 · #a4c48e
- Garden SpotΔE00 2.092 · #b1ca95
- Heartland FrostyΔE00 2.361 · #a7c297
- Sheer GreenΔE00 2.412 · #b0c69a
- Relaxation GreenΔE00 2.536 · #a8d19e
- In Good TasteΔE00 2.631 · #b6d4a0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.