Green Tea
#b5b68f
A yellow 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
#b5b68f
RGB
181, 182, 143
OKLCh
76.5% 0.053 108.8°
CIELAB (D50)
73.2, -5.2, 19.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 40.9; on black, Lc -61.4. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
2.09:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#787954 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
#b5b68f
protanopia
#b6b68f · ΔE00 0.4
deuteranopia
#b6b68f · ΔE00 0.4
tritanopia
#b6b693 · ΔE00 1.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSumptuous Sage at ΔE00 1.074: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sumptuous SageΔE00 1.074 · #b1b48c
- Secret GladeΔE00 1.313 · #b5b88d
- Sweet GrassΔE00 1.701 · #b2b68a
- Daddy-OΔE00 2.041 · #b0af8a
- Young WillowΔE00 2.054 · #b9b58e
- Winter PearΔE00 2.054 · #b0b487
- That’s AtomicΔE00 2.091 · #b0b08e
- Paspalum GrassΔE00 2.139 · #b9bd97
- Powdered SageΔE00 2.151 · #b7b38d
- LintΔE00 2.17 · #adb28d
- EspritΔE00 2.371 · #bebd99
- Majolica GreenΔE00 2.384 · #aeb08f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.