Zen Garden Olive
#445533
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
#445533
RGB
68, 85, 51
OKLCh
42.5% 0.057 130.1°
CIELAB (D50)
34.0, -12.0, 17.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.0; on black, Lc -14.1. 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 7.3 and 7.4 and 28.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.59:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#445533
protanopia
#535333 · ΔE00 7.3
deuteranopia
#505034 · ΔE00 7.4
tritanopia
#4d4d66 · ΔE00 28.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTrefoil at ΔE00 1.878: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- TrefoilΔE00 1.878 · #47562f
- Stinging NettleΔE00 2.738 · #495d39
- Heavy GreenΔE00 2.981 · #49583e
- Green Tone InkΔE00 3.051 · #47553c
- Banksia LeafΔE00 3.124 · #4b5539
- TurfΔE00 3.141 · #415b36
- ChiveΔE00 3.264 · #4d5637
- Knarloc GreenΔE00 3.281 · #4b5b40
- Shallot LeafΔE00 3.371 · #505c3a
- Green Shade WashΔE00 3.467 · #45523a
- Green GoannaΔE00 3.493 · #505a39
- WoodmanΔE00 3.755 · #4b5d31
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.