Luscious Lemongrass
#517933
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#517933
RGB
81, 121, 51
OKLCh
53.0% 0.109 133.6°
CIELAB (D50)
46.6, -24.4, 33.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.0; on black, Lc -26.8. 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 11.1 and 10.9 and 44.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.08:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.13:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.08:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#517933
protanopia
#757533 · ΔE00 11.1
deuteranopia
#6f6f35 · ΔE00 10.9
tritanopia
#6868a2 · ΔE00 44.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLuck of the Irish at ΔE00 1.362: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Luck of the IrishΔE00 1.362 · #547839
- Master ChiefΔE00 2.393 · #507d2a
- NereusΔE00 2.533 · #4c793c
- Hot Pepper GreenΔE00 2.785 · #598039
- Mangrove LeafΔE00 3.317 · #607c3d
- Loren ForestΔE00 3.321 · #50702d
- Mana TreeΔE00 3.517 · #4f7942
- Deep PineΔE00 3.713 · #557138
- Emerald Clear GreenΔE00 3.723 · #4f8129
- Mossy GreenΔE00 3.743 · #5a7c46
- BotanicalΔE00 3.964 · #4d6e2f
- Druid GreenΔE00 3.971 · #427131
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.