Heavy Green
#49583e
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
#49583e
RGB
73, 88, 62
OKLCh
44.0% 0.045 132.4°
CIELAB (D50)
35.5, -10.1, 13.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.5; on black, Lc -15.5. 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 7.1 and 7.2 and 25.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.64:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.75:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.64:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#49583e
protanopia
#56563e · ΔE00 7.1
deuteranopia
#54543e · ΔE00 7.2
tritanopia
#515169 · ΔE00 25.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreen Tone Ink at ΔE00 1.058: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Green Tone InkΔE00 1.058 · #47553c
- Knarloc GreenΔE00 1.06 · #4b5b40
- ChardΔE00 1.745 · #48553f
- Cayman GreenΔE00 1.899 · #495a44
- Catachan GreenΔE00 1.97 · #475742
- Green Shade WashΔE00 2.114 · #45523a
- BavarianΔE00 2.123 · #4d5e42
- Muddy OliveΔE00 2.373 · #4b5d46
- Banksia LeafΔE00 2.437 · #4b5539
- Castellan GreenΔE00 2.538 · #455440
- Savannah MossΔE00 2.742 · #47533f
- Grey AsparagusΔE00 2.919 · #465945
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.