Nightmare
#112211
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#112211
RGB
17, 34, 17
OKLCh
23.1% 0.039 144.2°
CIELAB (D50)
11.3, -10.9, 8.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 103.5; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 9.1 and 9.3 and 25.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
16.66:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.26:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at16.66:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#112211
protanopia
#212111 · ΔE00 9.1
deuteranopia
#1e1e12 · ΔE00 9.3
tritanopia
#1b1b36 · ΔE00 25.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Slate Olive at ΔE00 2.123: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Deep Slate OliveΔE00 2.123 · #172713
- Kuro GreenΔE00 2.945 · #1b2b1b
- Midnight PinesΔE00 3.41 · #17240b
- Nori GreenΔE00 4.02 · #112a12
- Oil SlickΔE00 4.146 · #031602
- Yuzu SoyΔE00 4.414 · #112200
- Clock Chimes ThirteenΔE00 4.839 · #002211
- Lindworm GreenΔE00 5.092 · #172808
- Pinch of PepperΔE00 5.399 · #0f180a
- Deep Slate GreenΔE00 5.476 · #0f261f
- BushΔE00 5.5 · #0d2e1c
- Méi Hēi CoalΔE00 5.862 · #123120
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.