Verdant Hush
#4e5a4a
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#4e5a4a
RGB
78, 90, 74
OKLCh
45.2% 0.030 137.9°
CIELAB (D50)
36.8, -7.4, 7.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 21% 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 85.3; on black, Lc -16.7. 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 6.2 and 6.4 and 20.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.28:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.89:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.28:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4e5a4a
protanopia
#59594a · ΔE00 6.2
deuteranopia
#57574a · ΔE00 6.4
tritanopia
#54546b · ΔE00 20.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Sea Shadow at ΔE00 0.955: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Deep Sea ShadowΔE00 0.955 · #4f5a4c
- Pleasant HillΔE00 0.994 · #4d5a4c
- Brierwood GreenΔE00 1.892 · #545e4f
- Deep EvergreenΔE00 1.976 · #4c574b
- Cabbage PontΔE00 2.139 · #4c5544
- BaizeΔE00 2.317 · #4b5445
- Green McQuarrieΔE00 2.675 · #555d50
- Rock GardenΔE00 2.926 · #465448
- Japanese SeaweedΔE00 2.963 · #53594b
- Hidden ForestΔE00 3.188 · #4f5a51
- Rookwood Dark GreenΔE00 3.221 · #565c4a
- ThymeΔE00 3.221 · #50574c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.