Midori
#2a603b
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#2a603b
RGB
42, 96, 59
OKLCh
44.2% 0.084 151.8°
CIELAB (D50)
36.3, -25.8, 15.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.5; on black, Lc -16.5. 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 15.4 and 15.8 and 39.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.41:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.83:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.41:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2a603b
protanopia
#5c5c3b · ΔE00 15.4
deuteranopia
#54543c · ΔE00 15.8
tritanopia
#4b4b9b · ΔE00 39.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEmerald Temple at ΔE00 0.635: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Emerald TempleΔE00 0.635 · #2b5f3c
- EspalierΔE00 1.036 · #2f5f3a
- DerbyshireΔE00 1.269 · #245e36
- Fairway GreenΔE00 1.37 · #26623f
- PineΔE00 1.851 · #2b5d34
- Green PeaΔE00 2.15 · #266242
- ParsleyΔE00 2.213 · #305d35
- Verde GarrafaΔE00 2.302 · #355e3b
- Forest SerenadeΔE00 2.459 · #336644
- GreenbriarΔE00 2.541 · #245d3f
- Genever GreenΔE00 2.607 · #33673f
- Thousand Years GreenΔE00 2.695 · #316745
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.