Beyond the Pines
#688049
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#688049
RGB
104, 128, 73
OKLCh
56.7% 0.084 128.1°
CIELAB (D50)
50.6, -16.5, 26.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.5; on black, Lc -31.2. 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 7.6 and 7.6 and 34.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.40:1 — large text only
Black text
4.77:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.77:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#667e47 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
#688049
protanopia
#7e7e49 · ΔE00 7.6
deuteranopia
#7a7a4a · ΔE00 7.6
tritanopia
#757595 · ΔE00 34.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWoodland Nymph at ΔE00 0.482: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Woodland NymphΔE00 0.482 · #69804b
- Green KnollΔE00 1.224 · #647f4a
- Talipot PalmΔE00 1.262 · #648149
- Happy CamperΔE00 1.6 · #6b8350
- Noble EricΔE00 2.062 · #627b44
- Mint LeavesΔE00 2.138 · #6a7d4e
- DingleyΔE00 2.254 · #607c47
- Creamed AvocadoΔE00 2.325 · #70804d
- HerbΔE00 2.393 · #708452
- Military GreenΔE00 2.443 · #667c3e
- HomoeopathicΔE00 2.462 · #5f7c47
- Healing PlantΔE00 2.594 · #6c7d42
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.