Overgrown Temple

#116611

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

Hex

#116611

RGB

17, 102, 17

OKLCh

44.5% 0.140 142.8°

CIELAB (D50)

37.3, -37.8, 37.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 93% 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 84.3; on black, Lc -17.7. 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 17.1 and 16.6 and 51.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

7.16:1 — passes AA

Black text

2.93:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at7.16:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#116611

protanopia

#616110 · ΔE00 17.1

deuteranopia

#575717 · ΔE00 16.6

tritanopia

#4b4ba7 · ΔE00 51.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApple II Green at ΔE00 0.685: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Apple II GreenΔE00 0.685 · #04650d
  • Nature’s MasterpieceΔE00 0.845 · #006611
  • Zelyony GreenΔE00 0.859 · #016612
  • Leafy LushΔE00 1.135 · #08690e
  • Emerald GreenΔE00 1.245 · #046307
  • Pakistan GreenΔE00 1.529 · #006600
  • CucumberΔE00 1.563 · #006400
  • Thuja GreenΔE00 1.623 · #11610f
  • Forest RideΔE00 1.755 · #006800
  • Avagddu GreenΔE00 2.543 · #106b21
  • Keen GreenΔE00 2.743 · #226600
  • Jurassic MossΔE00 3.083 · #0d601c

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