HueComb

Victorian Garden

#558e4c

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

Hex

#558e4c

RGB

85, 142, 76

OKLCh

59.1% 0.114 141.0°

CIELAB (D50)

53.9, -29.8, 28.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.4; on black, Lc -35.2. 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 14.2 and 13.9 and 47.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.92:1 — large text only

Black text

5.36:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.36:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4b8442 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

#558e4c

protanopia

#89894c · ΔE00 14.2

deuteranopia

#81814e · ΔE00 13.9

tritanopia

#7676cd · ΔE00 47.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVirgo Green Goddess at ΔE00 0.676: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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