Pharmaceutical Green
#087e34
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#087e34
RGB
8, 126, 52
OKLCh
51.9% 0.145 148.6°
CIELAB (D50)
45.9, -43.3, 31.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% 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 75.1; on black, Lc -26.6. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 19.4 and 18.8 and 51.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.19:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.04:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.19:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#087e34
protanopia
#777733 · ΔE00 19.4
deuteranopia
#6b6b38 · ΔE00 18.8
tritanopia
#5c5cd4 · ΔE00 51.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVerdant Vale at ΔE00 0.905: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Verdant ValeΔE00 0.905 · #0e7c36
- Charmed GreenΔE00 1.216 · #007f3a
- Gorgeous GreenΔE00 1.907 · #287c37
- La Salle GreenΔE00 2.075 · #087830
- Intermediate GreenΔE00 2.422 · #137730
- Warpstone GlowΔE00 2.456 · #168340
- Jordan JazzΔE00 2.473 · #037a3b
- Nature’s StrengthΔE00 2.48 · #117733
- ForestialΔE00 2.58 · #007733
- Lush ParadiseΔE00 2.689 · #2e7d32
- Jungle GreenΔE00 2.944 · #048243
- Mermaid’s TailΔE00 3.178 · #337b35
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.