Lindworm Green
#172808
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
#172808
RGB
23, 40, 8
OKLCh
25.3% 0.058 132.9°
CIELAB (D50)
14.0, -12.5, 16.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 102.5; 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 8.3 and 8.3 and 28.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.63:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.34:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.63:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#172808
protanopia
#262608 · ΔE00 8.3
deuteranopia
#242409 · ΔE00 8.3
tritanopia
#212139 · ΔE00 28.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYuzu Soy at ΔE00 1.965: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Yuzu SoyΔE00 1.965 · #112200
- Midnight PinesΔE00 2.555 · #17240b
- Deep Slate OliveΔE00 3.465 · #172713
- Nori GreenΔE00 3.565 · #112a12
- Darkest ForestΔE00 3.61 · #223311
- Zia OliveΔE00 4.272 · #082903
- NightmareΔE00 5.092 · #112211
- Dark SerpentΔE00 5.16 · #113311
- Kuro GreenΔE00 5.385 · #1b2b1b
- Rainforest NightsΔE00 5.442 · #002200
- Tides of DarknessΔE00 5.521 · #002400
- Diminishing GreenΔE00 5.552 · #062e03
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.