Ambrosia
#c6e1bc
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#c6e1bc
RGB
198, 225, 188
OKLCh
88.0% 0.058 137.2°
CIELAB (D50)
86.8, -14.3, 15.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 21% 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 19.8; on black, Lc -83.7. 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 9.2 and 9.5 and 30.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.41:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.90:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.90:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#657d5c 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
#c6e1bc
protanopia
#dedebc · ΔE00 9.2
deuteranopia
#dadabd · ΔE00 9.5
tritanopia
#d4d4ff · ΔE00 30.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLimestone Slate at ΔE00 0.601: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Limestone SlateΔE00 0.601 · #c5e0bd
- Rockwood JadeΔE00 0.972 · #c8e0ba
- Satin GreenΔE00 1.185 · #c7dfb8
- GalwayΔE00 1.195 · #c4ddbb
- Wisp GreenΔE00 1.506 · #c2dcb4
- Cuddle BugΔE00 1.599 · #c1e0be
- Iced AvocadoΔE00 1.673 · #c8e4b9
- Soft LumenΔE00 1.74 · #beddba
- Sweet MentholΔE00 1.851 · #c2e4bc
- White ViennaΔE00 2.059 · #c5dcb3
- Green SongΔE00 2.132 · #d1e9c4
- Green MythΔE00 2.136 · #c5e1c3
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.