HueComb

Lush Grass

#468d45

A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#468d45

RGB

70, 141, 69

OKLCh

58.0% 0.128 143.4°

CIELAB (D50)

52.8, -34.9, 31.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.7; on black, Lc -34.0. 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 16.1 and 15.7 and 49.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.07:1 — large text only

Black text

5.16:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.16:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#3f863e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#468d45

protanopia

#878745 · ΔE00 16.1

deuteranopia

#7d7d48 · ΔE00 15.7

tritanopia

#7171d7 · ΔE00 49.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPark Picnic at ΔE00 0.889: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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