HueComb

Pastel Pea

#bee7a5

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

Hex

#bee7a5

RGB

190, 231, 165

OKLCh

88.3% 0.098 134.0°

CIELAB (D50)

87.5, -22.6, 27.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 39% 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 18.7; on black, Lc -84.8. 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 10.4 and 10.4 and 37.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.38:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.16:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.16:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5c8144 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

#bee7a5

protanopia

#e3e3a5 · ΔE00 10.4

deuteranopia

#dcdca6 · ΔE00 10.4

tritanopia

#d4d4ff · ΔE00 37.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBasil Smash at ΔE00 1.489: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.