HueComb

Resplendent Growth

#3d8b37

A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#3d8b37

RGB

61, 139, 55

OKLCh

56.8% 0.142 142.2°

CIELAB (D50)

51.6, -38.1, 36.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.0; on black, Lc -32.6. 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 16.8 and 16.3 and 52.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.25:1 — large text only

Black text

4.95:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.95:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#398733 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#3d8b37

protanopia

#858536 · ΔE00 16.8

deuteranopia

#7a7a3a · ΔE00 16.3

tritanopia

#6d6dd6 · ΔE00 52.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOnline Lime at ΔE00 1.368: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.