Bimi Green

#54682b

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

Hex

#54682b

RGB

84, 104, 43

OKLCh

48.6% 0.090 124.8°

CIELAB (D50)

41.3, -15.6, 31.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.8; on black, Lc -21.0. 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 6.6 and 6.5 and 32.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

6.19:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.39:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at6.19:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#54682b

protanopia

#66662b · ΔE00 6.6

deuteranopia

#63632c · ΔE00 6.5

tritanopia

#5f5f74 · ΔE00 32.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFig Leaf at ΔE00 1.197: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Fig LeafΔE00 1.197 · #556b2f
  • Tabbouleh GreenΔE00 1.31 · #526525
  • Green LeafΔE00 1.541 · #526b2d
  • Bowser ShellΔE00 2.67 · #536b1f
  • Deathworld ForestΔE00 2.71 · #5c6730
  • Tiāntāi Mountain GreenΔE00 2.711 · #566b38
  • Basil GreenΔE00 2.747 · #54622e
  • Heavy KhakiΔE00 2.831 · #5e6a34
  • Russian UniformΔE00 3.015 · #5f6d36
  • Gretchin GreenΔE00 3.117 · #5d6732
  • Crisp CapsicumΔE00 3.388 · #5d6e3b
  • Spring OnionΔE00 3.463 · #596c3c

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