Lush Paradise
#2e7d32
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#2e7d32
RGB
46, 125, 50
OKLCh
52.3% 0.135 144.2°
CIELAB (D50)
46.3, -37.3, 32.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.0; on black, Lc -26.7. 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 17.0 and 16.5 and 50.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.13:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.10:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.13:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2e7d32
protanopia
#777731 · ΔE00 17.0
deuteranopia
#6d6d35 · ΔE00 16.5
tritanopia
#6060c6 · ΔE00 50.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMermaid’s Tail at ΔE00 1.07: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mermaid’s TailΔE00 1.07 · #337b35
- Gorgeous GreenΔE00 1.509 · #287c37
- Pharmaceutical GreenΔE00 2.689 · #087e34
- Verdant ValeΔE00 2.897 · #0e7c36
- Japanese LaurelΔE00 2.925 · #2f7532
- Intermediate GreenΔE00 3.211 · #137730
- La Salle GreenΔE00 3.318 · #087830
- Azure RadianceΔE00 3.347 · #007f1f
- Cucumber QueenΔE00 3.524 · #3c773c
- Nature’s StrengthΔE00 3.552 · #117733
- Charmed GreenΔE00 3.561 · #007f3a
- PoblanoΔE00 3.598 · #077f1b
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.