Meadow Morn
#aebea6
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#aebea6
RGB
174, 190, 166
OKLCh
78.3% 0.038 135.1°
CIELAB (D50)
75.2, -9.0, 10.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 16% 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 37.7; on black, Lc -64.7. 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 6.8 and 7.0 and 23.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.96:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.72:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.72:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6c7b65 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
#aebea6
protanopia
#bcbca6 · ΔE00 6.8
deuteranopia
#babaa6 · ΔE00 7.0
tritanopia
#b6b6d4 · ΔE00 23.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFresh Thyme at ΔE00 1.073: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Fresh ThymeΔE00 1.073 · #aebda8
- Creamy SpinachΔE00 1.282 · #b2bfa6
- Unroasted CoffeeΔE00 1.283 · #b1bea8
- Pale SageΔE00 1.384 · #acbda1
- Jade CameoΔE00 1.593 · #b0bda2
- Winter SquashΔE00 1.833 · #acb99f
- Desolace DewΔE00 1.835 · #b5c1a9
- Green AndaraΔE00 2.045 · #afc1a3
- Laurel GreenΔE00 2.057 · #a9ba9d
- Wedding MintΔE00 2.078 · #b5c1ac
- Nymph GreenΔE00 2.11 · #aec2a5
- Belladonna’s LeafΔE00 2.444 · #adc3a7
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.