HueComb

Homegrown

#63884a

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

Hex

#63884a

RGB

99, 136, 74

OKLCh

58.4% 0.098 133.8°

CIELAB (D50)

52.8, -22.2, 28.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.9; on black, Lc -33.8. 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 10.5 and 10.4 and 42.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.08:1 — large text only

Black text

5.15:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.15:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5c8143 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

#63884a

protanopia

#84844a · ΔE00 10.5

deuteranopia

#7f7f4b · ΔE00 10.4

tritanopia

#7878b0 · ΔE00 42.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBeatnik at ΔE00 0.85: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.