Clouded Pine

#628468

A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#628468

RGB

98, 132, 104

OKLCh

57.9% 0.057 149.7°

CIELAB (D50)

51.9, -17.0, 11.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 36% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.8; on black, Lc -32.9. 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 12.5 and 12.9 and 33.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.18:1 — large text only

Black text

5.02:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.02:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5d7f63 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

#628468

protanopia

#818168 · ΔE00 12.5

deuteranopia

#7b7b69 · ΔE00 12.9

tritanopia

#7575b6 · ΔE00 33.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isComfrey at ΔE00 0.841: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • ComfreyΔE00 0.841 · #64856b
  • Garden GreeneryΔE00 1.172 · #658369
  • Christmas HollyΔE00 1.764 · #68846a
  • JaditeΔE00 2.099 · #61826c
  • Mistletoe WhisperΔE00 2.146 · #5a8065
  • Tuscan HerbsΔE00 2.17 · #658362
  • Dark IvyΔE00 2.207 · #66856f
  • Green Goth EyeshadowΔE00 2.38 · #588266
  • Shale GreenΔE00 2.388 · #6b886b
  • Korean MintΔE00 2.665 · #5d7d61
  • Soylent GreenΔE00 2.694 · #578363
  • HolensoΔE00 2.939 · #598069

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