Ficus
#3b593a
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
#3b593a
RGB
59, 89, 58
OKLCh
43.1% 0.062 143.7°
CIELAB (D50)
34.8, -16.9, 14.3
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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.2; on black, Lc -14.9. 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 11.5 and 11.8 and 33.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.85:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.68:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.85:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3b593a
protanopia
#56563a · ΔE00 11.5
deuteranopia
#52523b · ΔE00 11.8
tritanopia
#4c4c7f · ΔE00 33.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHorsetail at ΔE00 2.111: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- HorsetailΔE00 2.111 · #3d5d42
- CupidityΔE00 2.354 · #406040
- TurfΔE00 2.581 · #415b36
- Verde GarrafaΔE00 2.819 · #355e3b
- HighlanderΔE00 3.51 · #3a533d
- Acacia GreenΔE00 3.641 · #486241
- GoblinΔE00 3.702 · #34533d
- ParsleyΔE00 3.745 · #305d35
- Lady LuckΔE00 3.773 · #47613c
- EspalierΔE00 4.065 · #2f5f3a
- Stinging NettleΔE00 4.224 · #495d39
- O’Neal GreenΔE00 4.297 · #395643
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.