Queen of Trees
#1c401f
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
#1c401f
RGB
28, 64, 31
OKLCh
33.5% 0.070 145.5°
CIELAB (D50)
23.7, -19.8, 16.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 96.6; 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 12.8 and 13.1 and 35.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.80:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#1c401f
protanopia
#3d3d1f · ΔE00 12.8
deuteranopia
#383820 · ΔE00 13.1
tritanopia
#323266 · ΔE00 35.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMyrtle at ΔE00 1.452: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- MyrtleΔE00 1.452 · #21421e
- Gameboy ContrastΔE00 3.612 · #0f380f
- MelancholiaΔE00 3.926 · #12390d
- Deep PondΔE00 3.988 · #014420
- Broadleaf ForestΔE00 4.033 · #014421
- Dark SerpentΔE00 4.068 · #113311
- Moisty MireΔE00 4.186 · #004422
- Pine GreenΔE00 4.246 · #0a481e
- Cal Poly Pomona GreenΔE00 4.321 · #1e4d2b
- Angel GreenΔE00 4.558 · #004225
- Lost in the WoodsΔE00 4.586 · #014426
- ZucchiniΔE00 4.605 · #17462e
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.