Deep Green

#02590f

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

Hex

#02590f

RGB

2, 89, 15

OKLCh

40.3% 0.129 144.1°

CIELAB (D50)

32.3, -35.8, 32.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 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 89.0; on black, Lc -13.2. 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 16.8 and 16.4 and 49.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

8.61:1 — passes AA

Black text

2.44:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at8.61:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#02590f

protanopia

#54540e · ΔE00 16.8

deuteranopia

#4b4b14 · ΔE00 16.4

tritanopia

#404096 · ΔE00 49.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSwamp Monster at ΔE00 1.479: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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