June Ivy

#416858

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

#416858

RGB

65, 104, 88

OKLCh

48.3% 0.052 166.5°

CIELAB (D50)

40.7, -17.4, 4.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 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 81.2; on black, Lc -20.7. 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 14.7 and 15.3 and 30.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

6.28:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.35:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at6.28:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#416858

protanopia

#656558 · ΔE00 14.7

deuteranopia

#5f5f59 · ΔE00 15.3

tritanopia

#5757a1 · ΔE00 30.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIsle of Pines at ΔE00 0.919: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Isle of PinesΔE00 0.919 · #3e6655
  • Earhart EmeraldΔE00 1.375 · #416659
  • StromboliΔE00 2.102 · #406356
  • Tropical FoliageΔE00 2.115 · #3e6252
  • Plantain GreenΔE00 2.475 · #356554
  • Shadow PineΔE00 2.523 · #356454
  • Serbian GreenΔE00 2.527 · #3e644f
  • Palace GreenΔE00 2.658 · #426255
  • Posy GreenΔE00 2.743 · #366254
  • Smoke PineΔE00 2.827 · #446b61
  • Cucumber GreenΔE00 2.952 · #466353
  • DignifiedΔE00 3.058 · #3b695f

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