HueComb

Hidden Paradise

#5e8b3d

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

Hex

#5e8b3d

RGB

94, 139, 61

OKLCh

58.6% 0.119 133.7°

CIELAB (D50)

53.3, -26.7, 36.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 71% 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 11.8 and 11.5 and 47.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.01:1 — large text only

Black text

5.24:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.24:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#568334 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

#5e8b3d

protanopia

#87873d · ΔE00 11.8

deuteranopia

#80803f · ΔE00 11.5

tritanopia

#7777b9 · ΔE00 47.0

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 1.029: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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