La Palma
#428929
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#428929
RGB
66, 137, 41
OKLCh
56.4% 0.149 138.7°
CIELAB (D50)
51.0, -37.0, 42.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.8; on black, Lc -31.9. 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 15.8 and 15.3 and 53.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.34:1 — large text only
Black text
4.84:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.84:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#3f8626 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#428929
protanopia
#838328 · ΔE00 15.8
deuteranopia
#79792d · ΔE00 15.3
tritanopia
#6d6dcd · ΔE00 53.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDirect Green at ΔE00 0.756: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Direct GreenΔE00 0.756 · #3f8a24
- Fruitless Fig TreeΔE00 1.104 · #448822
- Overgrown MausoleumΔE00 1.578 · #448833
- ChlorophyllΔE00 1.978 · #44891a
- Resplendent GrowthΔE00 2.532 · #3d8b37
- Temperamental GreenΔE00 2.659 · #2b8725
- Kelp ForestΔE00 2.76 · #448811
- OkraΔE00 2.835 · #3e912d
- Mountain Meadow GreenΔE00 2.962 · #418638
- Cossack GreenΔE00 3.002 · #328e13
- Football PitchΔE00 3.041 · #528e39
- Tropical Forest GreenΔE00 3.053 · #228b21
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.