HueComb

Indica

#588c3a

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

Hex

#588c3a

RGB

88, 140, 58

OKLCh

58.5% 0.127 135.6°

CIELAB (D50)

53.2, -29.6, 37.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 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 67.3; on black, Lc -34.4. 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 13.0 and 12.7 and 49.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.02:1 — large text only

Black text

5.23:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.23:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#508431 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

#588c3a

protanopia

#87873a · ΔE00 13.0

deuteranopia

#80803d · ΔE00 12.7

tritanopia

#7676c2 · ΔE00 49.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolf Day at ΔE00 1.009: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.