Herbes de Provence
#3a5f49
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#3a5f49
RGB
58, 95, 73
OKLCh
45.1% 0.056 157.2°
CIELAB (D50)
37.0, -17.9, 8.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.0; on black, Lc -17.1. 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 13.9 and 14.4 and 32.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.21:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.91:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.21:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3a5f49
protanopia
#5c5c49 · ΔE00 13.9
deuteranopia
#56564a · ΔE00 14.4
tritanopia
#4f4f91 · ΔE00 32.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWindy Pine at ΔE00 0.684: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Windy PineΔE00 0.684 · #3d604a
- Moss ValeΔE00 1.204 · #38614c
- Wine LeafΔE00 1.663 · #355e4b
- Serbian GreenΔE00 1.809 · #3e644f
- Amish GreenΔE00 1.937 · #3a5f4e
- Ethereal WoodsΔE00 2.497 · #3e5e4e
- HorsetailΔE00 2.498 · #3d5d42
- Tropical FoliageΔE00 2.653 · #3e6252
- Poker GreenΔE00 2.801 · #35654d
- Black Pine GreenΔE00 3.219 · #33654a
- SpectraΔE00 3.239 · #375d4f
- Billiard GreenΔE00 3.273 · #305a4a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.