Greasy Greens
#117755
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#117755
RGB
17, 119, 85
OKLCh
50.6% 0.103 164.1°
CIELAB (D50)
44.1, -35.2, 10.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 95% 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 77.2; on black, Lc -24.6. 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 19.7 and 20.4 and 42.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.54:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.79:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.54:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#117755
protanopia
#717155 · ΔE00 19.7
deuteranopia
#666657 · ΔE00 20.4
tritanopia
#5757d0 · ΔE00 42.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVictoria Peak at ΔE00 0.622: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Victoria PeakΔE00 0.622 · #007755
- Green VelvetΔE00 1.039 · #127453
- Ivy LeagueΔE00 1.068 · #007958
- Opal GreenΔE00 1.112 · #157954
- Poplar ForestΔE00 1.312 · #137953
- Lush MeadowΔE00 1.54 · #007351
- Sharp GreenΔE00 2.164 · #007d58
- Gnarls GreenΔE00 2.523 · #00754b
- Emerald DreamΔE00 2.553 · #007a5e
- Spanish ViridianΔE00 2.846 · #007f5c
- Irish BeautyΔE00 2.867 · #007f59
- Verdant GreenΔE00 2.885 · #167d60
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.