Maison Verte

#e5f0d9

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

#e5f0d9

RGB

229, 240, 217

OKLCh

94.1% 0.033 128.0°

CIELAB (D50)

93.5, -6.8, 9.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

29 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
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 8.7; on black, Lc -95.6. 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.
tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 17.7 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.18:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#707a66 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

#e5f0d9

protanopia

#efefd9 · ΔE00 4.7

deuteranopia

#ededd9 · ΔE00 4.9

tritanopia

#ebebfa · ΔE00 17.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTranslucent Vision at ΔE00 0.562: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Translucent VisionΔE00 0.562 · #e5efd7
Diminished MintΔE00 0.863 · #e9f3dd
Mossy WhiteΔE00 1.137 · #e7f2de
Minified LimeΔE00 1.167 · #ebf5de
Spring MornΔE00 1.306 · #e5f0d5
Mineral WaterΔE00 1.35 · #dfebd6
Morning FrostΔE00 1.411 · #ebf4df
Lower LimeΔE00 1.413 · #e6f1de
Lush LifeΔE00 1.46 · #e9f6e0
White WillowΔE00 1.55 · #ecf4dd
Spring WheatΔE00 1.565 · #e0eed4
Lime GlowΔE00 1.584 · #e1ecd9

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