HueComb

Muted Green

#5fa052

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

Hex

#5fa052

RGB

95, 160, 82

OKLCh

64.3% 0.129 140.4°

CIELAB (D50)

60.1, -33.4, 33.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.6; on black, Lc -43.1. 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 15.0 and 14.6 and 50.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.16:1 — large text only

Black text

6.64:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.64:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#458538 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

#5fa052

protanopia

#9a9a52 · ΔE00 15.0

deuteranopia

#919154 · ΔE00 14.6

tritanopia

#8585e7 · ΔE00 50.3

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 0.93: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.