HueComb

Lost Golfer

#74af54

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

Hex

#74af54

RGB

116, 175, 84

OKLCh

69.3% 0.138 135.7°

CIELAB (D50)

65.9, -32.4, 39.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.0; on black, Lc -50.9. 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 13.6 and 13.3 and 51.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.62:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.00:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.00:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4c8528 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

#74af54

protanopia

#aaaa54 · ΔE00 13.6

deuteranopia

#a1a157 · ΔE00 13.3

tritanopia

#9696ee · ΔE00 51.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAsparagus at ΔE00 1.463: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.