Mangrove
#757461
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#757461
RGB
117, 116, 97
OKLCh
55.4% 0.028 104.8°
CIELAB (D50)
48.5, -2.2, 10.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 24% 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 73.0; on black, Lc -28.7. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
4.74:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.43:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.74:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#757461
protanopia
#747461 · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#747461 · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#74745d · ΔE00 1.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeppergrass at ΔE00 0.562: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- PeppergrassΔE00 0.562 · #767461
- OrganicΔE00 1.204 · #747261
- Amazon RiverΔE00 1.245 · #777462
- November GreenΔE00 1.487 · #767764
- Salt Island GreenΔE00 1.556 · #757261
- Royal IvyΔE00 1.665 · #787866
- Sage Green LightΔE00 1.847 · #73705e
- Secret MissionΔE00 2.111 · #777465
- Magic MountainΔE00 2.192 · #717462
- Crooked RiverΔE00 2.353 · #797869
- Lapwing Grey GreenΔE00 2.368 · #7a7562
- Lazy LichenΔE00 2.501 · #6e6e5c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.