Devil’s Grass
#44aa55
A green that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#44aa55
RGB
68, 170, 85
OKLCh
65.8% 0.155 146.7°
CIELAB (D50)
62.2, -44.6, 34.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 55.6; on black, Lc -46.2. 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 19.2 and 18.6 and 52.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.95:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#1a8935 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
#44aa55
protanopia
#a2a254 · ΔE00 19.2
deuteranopia
#959558 · ΔE00 18.6
tritanopia
#8484ff · ΔE00 52.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLeapfrog at ΔE00 0.934: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- LeapfrogΔE00 0.934 · #41a94f
- Harā GreenΔE00 1.916 · #55aa55
- Fruit SaladΔE00 2.236 · #4ba351
- Chlorella GreenΔE00 2.303 · #56ae57
- Straightforward GreenΔE00 2.344 · #52a550
- Matt GreenΔE00 2.406 · #39ad48
- Exploration GreenΔE00 2.49 · #55a860
- VitalizeΔE00 2.614 · #2aaa45
- Spandex GreenΔE00 2.657 · #36b14e
- SpinachΔE00 2.698 · #46a35a
- Lush Un’goro CraterΔE00 2.728 · #54a64d
- Nordic Grass GreenΔE00 2.755 · #1fab58
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.