Grass
#5cac2d
A green that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#5cac2d
RGB
92, 172, 45
OKLCh
66.8% 0.177 136.5°
CIELAB (D50)
63.4, -41.9, 53.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.2; on black, Lc -47.6. 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 16.2 and 15.7 and 58.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.84:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.39:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.39:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#3e8700 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5cac2d
protanopia
#a5a52c · ΔE00 16.2
deuteranopia
#9a9a33 · ΔE00 15.7
tritanopia
#8c8cf9 · ΔE00 58.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYule Tree at ΔE00 1.638: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Yule TreeΔE00 1.638 · #66b032
- Plastic PinesΔE00 1.974 · #55aa11
- Alpine MeadowΔE00 2.062 · #6aae2e
- Green SymphonyΔE00 2.24 · #66aa22
- StarburΔE00 2.269 · #6cb037
- BallyhooΔE00 2.474 · #58a83b
- YoshiΔE00 2.568 · #55aa00
- Botanical GardenΔE00 2.651 · #44aa11
- Ruminant’s ParadiseΔE00 2.804 · #5ca904
- Early DewΔE00 2.917 · #44aa00
- Nasty GreenΔE00 3.026 · #70b23f
- LeafΔE00 3.131 · #71aa34
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.