HueComb

Golf Course

#5a9e4b

A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#5a9e4b

RGB

90, 158, 75

OKLCh

63.4% 0.136 140.1°

CIELAB (D50)

59.2, -34.9, 35.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.8; on black, Lc -41.9. 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 15.4 and 15.0 and 51.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.27:1 — large text only

Black text

6.43:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.43:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#428633 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

#5a9e4b

protanopia

#98984a · ΔE00 15.4

deuteranopia

#8e8e4e · ΔE00 15.0

tritanopia

#8282e6 · ΔE00 51.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isParsley Green at ΔE00 0.42: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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