PCB Green
#002d04
A green that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#002d04
RGB
0, 45, 4
OKLCh
25.8% 0.083 144.2°
CIELAB (D50)
14.9, -23.1, 19.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 101.8; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 13.6 and 13.7 and 37.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.25:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.38:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.25:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#002d04
protanopia
#2a2a04 · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#252506 · ΔE00 13.7
tritanopia
#1e1e50 · ΔE00 37.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDiminishing Green at ΔE00 1.21: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Diminishing GreenΔE00 1.21 · #062e03
- Haunted ForestΔE00 1.867 · #032e0e
- PrasinophobiaΔE00 2.015 · #002f0f
- Zia OliveΔE00 2.213 · #082903
- Haunted HillsΔE00 2.373 · #003311
- Serpentine ShadowΔE00 2.775 · #003300
- Dark SerpentΔE00 2.92 · #113311
- Tides of DarknessΔE00 3.248 · #002400
- Dark GreenΔE00 3.529 · #033500
- Gameboy ContrastΔE00 3.53 · #0f380f
- Witch WartΔE00 4.034 · #113300
- MelancholiaΔE00 4.158 · #12390d
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.