HueComb

Moss

#009051

A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#009051

RGB

0, 144, 81

OKLCh

57.4% 0.142 154.8°

CIELAB (D50)

52.4, -45.7, 23.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 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 67.6; on black, Lc -34.1. 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 20.9 and 20.4 and 49.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.11:1 — large text only

Black text

5.11:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.11:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#00894d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#009051

protanopia

#888850 · ΔE00 20.9

deuteranopia

#7b7b54 · ΔE00 20.4

tritanopia

#6969f6 · ΔE00 49.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCapitalino Cactus at ΔE00 1.001: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Capitalino CactusΔE00 1.001 · #008f4c
  • Emerald IsleΔE00 1.25 · #019157
  • Bottle GlassΔE00 1.441 · #238e50
  • Jade SylphΔE00 1.802 · #008f48
  • Fly the GreenΔE00 1.965 · #218d4b
  • Iceland GreenΔE00 2.04 · #008b52
  • Real TurquoiseΔE00 2.134 · #008a4c
  • Grass CourtΔE00 2.236 · #088d46
  • Later GatorΔE00 2.327 · #008a51
  • St. PatrickΔE00 2.334 · #2b8c4e
  • English MeadowΔE00 2.419 · #028a52
  • Center FieldΔE00 2.658 · #008b56

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