Wasabi
#afd77f
A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#afd77f
RGB
175, 215, 127
OKLCh
83.0% 0.123 128.7°
CIELAB (D50)
81.6, -24.6, 38.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.2; on black, Lc -74.7. 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 9.7 and 9.6 and 44.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.63:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5e812a 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
#afd77f
protanopia
#d3d37f · ΔE00 9.7
deuteranopia
#cccc81 · ΔE00 9.6
tritanopia
#c5c5fb · ΔE00 44.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLivery Green at ΔE00 1.604: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Livery GreenΔE00 1.604 · #a8d275
- Davao GreenΔE00 1.699 · #b1d27b
- Crystal GreenΔE00 1.878 · #a4d579
- Bilious GreenΔE00 2.105 · #a9d171
- Pastel LimeΔE00 2.123 · #b9d786
- Green ChalkΔE00 2.386 · #bcdf8a
- GreenscapeΔE00 2.469 · #a5cf7e
- Tart AppleΔE00 2.529 · #b6d27e
- Fresh LettuceΔE00 2.596 · #b2d58c
- FeijoaΔE00 2.673 · #a5d785
- Lick of LimeΔE00 2.76 · #a6cc72
- Pancotto PuglieseΔE00 2.908 · #bfdb89
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.