Overgrown Mausoleum
#448833
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#448833
RGB
68, 136, 51
OKLCh
56.3% 0.138 139.8°
CIELAB (D50)
50.8, -35.2, 37.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.0; on black, Lc -31.7. 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 15.6 and 15.1 and 51.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.36:1 — large text only
Black text
4.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#428631 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
#448833
protanopia
#828232 · ΔE00 15.6
deuteranopia
#797936 · ΔE00 15.1
tritanopia
#6d6dcb · ΔE00 51.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMountain Meadow Green at ΔE00 1.486: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mountain Meadow GreenΔE00 1.486 · #418638
- La PalmaΔE00 1.578 · #428929
- Resplendent GrowthΔE00 1.611 · #3d8b37
- Online LimeΔE00 2.085 · #468c3e
- Direct GreenΔE00 2.283 · #3f8a24
- Fruitless Fig TreeΔE00 2.518 · #448822
- Level UpΔE00 2.652 · #468741
- Fiji PalmΔE00 2.656 · #528d3c
- Temperamental GreenΔE00 2.879 · #2b8725
- Football PitchΔE00 2.886 · #528e39
- BilbaoΔE00 3.13 · #3e8027
- Jade of EmeraldsΔE00 3.2 · #318f33
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.