Forest
#0b5509
A green that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#0b5509
RGB
11, 85, 9
OKLCh
39.2% 0.125 142.5°
CIELAB (D50)
30.9, -33.7, 33.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 94% 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 90.3; on black, Lc -12.0. 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 15.9 and 15.5 and 48.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.06:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.32:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.06:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#0b5509
protanopia
#505008 · ΔE00 15.9
deuteranopia
#48480f · ΔE00 15.5
tritanopia
#3e3e8d · ΔE00 48.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJungle Jam at ΔE00 1.021: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Jungle JamΔE00 1.021 · #115511
- Pharmacy GreenΔE00 1.075 · #005500
- GreeeeeeenΔE00 1.115 · #005300
- Donegal GreenΔE00 1.426 · #115500
- Deep GreenΔE00 1.519 · #02590f
- Swamp MonsterΔE00 1.534 · #005511
- Duck HuntΔE00 1.593 · #005800
- Lincoln GreenΔE00 2.066 · #195905
- Malachite GreenΔE00 2.229 · #004e00
- Patch of LandΔE00 2.331 · #225511
- Evergreen ShadeΔE00 3.152 · #045e17
- Mysterious MixtureΔE00 3.256 · #0f521a
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.