HueComb

Savage Garden

#5c9f59

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

Hex

#5c9f59

RGB

92, 159, 89

OKLCh

64.0% 0.122 143.1°

CIELAB (D50)

59.7, -33.3, 29.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.1; on black, Lc -42.7. 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 15.5 and 15.2 and 48.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.20:1 — large text only

Black text

6.56:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.56:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#438540 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

#5c9f59

protanopia

#999959 · ΔE00 15.5

deuteranopia

#8f8f5b · ΔE00 15.2

tritanopia

#8383ea · ΔE00 48.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMuted Green at ΔE00 1.788: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.