British Racing Green
#05480d
A green that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#05480d
RGB
5, 72, 13
OKLCh
35.0% 0.109 144.1°
CIELAB (D50)
25.9, -30.2, 27.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 96% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.6; on black, Lc -8.0. 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 15.2 and 14.9 and 45.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.83:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.94:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.83:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#05480d
protanopia
#44440c · ΔE00 15.2
deuteranopia
#3d3d11 · ΔE00 14.9
tritanopia
#33337a · ΔE00 45.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBorg Drone at ΔE00 0.341: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Borg DroneΔE00 0.341 · #06470c
- Dark FernΔE00 0.413 · #0a480d
- Borg QueenΔE00 1.131 · #054907
- Kabocha GreenΔE00 1.61 · #044a05
- Racing GreenΔE00 1.917 · #014600
- Wailing WoodsΔE00 1.962 · #004411
- Woodland GrassΔE00 1.975 · #004400
- Realm of the UnderworldΔE00 2.033 · #114411
- Forest GreenΔE00 2.618 · #154406
- Hunter GreenΔE00 2.637 · #0b4008
- Industrial GreenΔE00 2.855 · #114400
- Malachite GreenΔE00 3.166 · #004e00
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.