Myrtle
#21421e
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
#21421e
RGB
33, 66, 30
OKLCh
34.4% 0.072 142.2°
CIELAB (D50)
24.7, -19.1, 17.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 95.9; 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 11.9 and 12.1 and 36.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.27:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.86:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.27:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#21421e
protanopia
#3f3f1e · ΔE00 11.9
deuteranopia
#3a3a1f · ΔE00 12.1
tritanopia
#353565 · ΔE00 36.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQueen of Trees 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.
- Queen of TreesΔE00 1.452 · #1c401f
- ForestryΔE00 3.645 · #2f441f
- MelancholiaΔE00 3.814 · #12390d
- Gameboy ContrastΔE00 3.858 · #0f380f
- Realm of the UnderworldΔE00 4.117 · #114411
- Pine GreenΔE00 4.38 · #0a481e
- Cal Poly Pomona GreenΔE00 4.411 · #1e4d2b
- Chestnut GreenΔE00 4.601 · #2a4f21
- Dark SerpentΔE00 4.68 · #113311
- Deep PondΔE00 4.787 · #014420
- Broadleaf ForestΔE00 4.892 · #014421
- Hunter GreenΔE00 4.993 · #0b4008
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.