Green Commando
#828039
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#828039
RGB
130, 128, 57
OKLCh
58.6% 0.093 107.5°
CIELAB (D50)
52.6, -6.7, 38.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.3; on black, Lc -33.4. 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
4.12:1 — large text only
Black text
5.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7a32 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
#828039
protanopia
#808039 · ΔE00 0.7
deuteranopia
#818139 · ΔE00 0.7
tritanopia
#818125 · ΔE00 3.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVerdant at ΔE00 1.496: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- VerdantΔE00 1.496 · #847e35
- Majorca GreenΔE00 1.826 · #808337
- Mossy MeadowΔE00 2.06 · #867e36
- DrabΔE00 2.196 · #828344
- ApelandΔE00 2.278 · #8a843b
- Galia MelonΔE00 2.507 · #8a8342
- Evening GreenΔE00 2.58 · #7c7a3a
- Witch BrewΔE00 2.781 · #888738
- Thai BasilΔE00 2.984 · #7a7f3f
- Overgrown CitadelΔE00 3.019 · #888844
- Basil ChiffonadeΔE00 3.042 · #828249
- Frog’s LegsΔE00 3.657 · #8c8449
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.