Darkest Forest
#223311
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
#223311
RGB
34, 51, 17
OKLCh
29.7% 0.060 131.3°
CIELAB (D50)
19.1, -12.6, 18.8
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 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 100.0; 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 7.7 and 7.8 and 29.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.55:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.55:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.55:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#223311
protanopia
#313111 · ΔE00 7.7
deuteranopia
#2f2f12 · ΔE00 7.8
tritanopia
#2b2b44 · ΔE00 29.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLindworm Green at ΔE00 3.61: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Lindworm GreenΔE00 3.61 · #172808
- Blind ForestΔE00 3.669 · #223300
- Dark SerpentΔE00 4.815 · #113311
- Witch WartΔE00 5.007 · #113300
- CeylaniteΔE00 5.198 · #33431e
- ForestryΔE00 5.313 · #2f441f
- Midnight PinesΔE00 5.434 · #17240b
- Turtle SkinΔE00 5.451 · #363e1d
- Hinterlands GreenΔE00 5.46 · #304112
- MelancholiaΔE00 5.508 · #12390d
- Nori GreenΔE00 5.543 · #112a12
- Yuzu SoyΔE00 5.55 · #112200
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.