HueComb

Ice Ice

#baebae

A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#baebae

RGB

186, 235, 174

OKLCh

89.0% 0.096 139.5°

CIELAB (D50)

88.5, -24.7, 24.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.0; on black, Lc -86.6. 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 12.1 and 12.2 and 35.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.35:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.58:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.58:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#55824a is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#baebae

protanopia

#e6e6ae · ΔE00 12.1

deuteranopia

#dedeaf · ΔE00 12.2

tritanopia

#d5d5ff · ΔE00 35.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBasilisk Lizard at ΔE00 0.796: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.