Radiant Foliage
#659c35
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#659c35
RGB
101, 156, 53
OKLCh
63.3% 0.146 133.1°
CIELAB (D50)
58.9, -32.1, 45.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.2; on black, Lc -41.5. 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 13.0 and 12.6 and 52.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.30:1 — large text only
Black text
6.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4f8417 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#659c35
protanopia
#979734 · ΔE00 13.0
deuteranopia
#8f8f38 · ΔE00 12.6
tritanopia
#8585d2 · ΔE00 52.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThyme and Salt at ΔE00 0.778: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Thyme and SaltΔE00 0.778 · #629a31
- Hidden ValleyΔE00 1.23 · #689938
- Parisian GreenΔE00 1.839 · #6b9c42
- LimeadeΔE00 2.1 · #5f9727
- Indubitably GreenΔE00 2.397 · #729e42
- Bitter LeafΔE00 2.422 · #669841
- Siren of NatureΔE00 2.501 · #68a43c
- Festival GreenΔE00 2.669 · #6ea43c
- Hubert’s Truck GreenΔE00 2.716 · #559933
- Lattice GreenΔE00 2.929 · #6f9843
- Green Gone WildΔE00 3.02 · #73a236
- Bright ParrotΔE00 3.024 · #549c38
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.