Midnight Pines
#17240b
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
#17240b
RGB
23, 36, 11
OKLCh
24.1% 0.047 131.8°
CIELAB (D50)
12.5, -10.1, 13.5
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 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 103.1; 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 7.2 and 7.2 and 24.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
16.23:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.29:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at16.23:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#17240b
protanopia
#23230b · ΔE00 7.2
deuteranopia
#21210c · ΔE00 7.2
tritanopia
#1e1e31 · ΔE00 24.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Slate Olive at ΔE00 2.089: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Deep Slate OliveΔE00 2.089 · #172713
- Lindworm GreenΔE00 2.555 · #172808
- Yuzu SoyΔE00 2.567 · #112200
- NightmareΔE00 3.41 · #112211
- Kuro GreenΔE00 4.114 · #1b2b1b
- Nori GreenΔE00 4.307 · #112a12
- Darkest ForestΔE00 5.434 · #223311
- Oil SlickΔE00 6.11 · #031602
- Zia OliveΔE00 6.231 · #082903
- Mountain Range GreenΔE00 6.367 · #283123
- Rainforest NightsΔE00 6.4 · #002200
- Pinch of PepperΔE00 6.548 · #0f180a
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.