Pitch-Black Forests
#003322
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#003322
RGB
0, 51, 34
OKLCh
28.4% 0.060 164.5°
CIELAB (D50)
17.8, -20.7, 6.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 100.4; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 16.1 and 16.7 and 32.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.03:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.50:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.03:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#003322
protanopia
#303022 · ΔE00 16.1
deuteranopia
#2a2a23 · ΔE00 16.7
tritanopia
#23235f · ΔE00 32.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNightly Woods at ΔE00 0.629: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Nightly WoodsΔE00 0.629 · #013220
- Coach GreenΔE00 1.549 · #003527
- Off-Road GreenΔE00 1.606 · #003723
- Dark JungleΔE00 2.343 · #0b3021
- Phthalo GreenΔE00 2.664 · #123524
- Opulent GreenΔE00 2.725 · #103222
- BushΔE00 3.319 · #0d2e1c
- Méi Hēi CoalΔE00 3.419 · #123120
- Intense GreenΔE00 3.905 · #123328
- Deep FirΔE00 4.122 · #193925
- Pumpkin Green BlackΔE00 4.284 · #183425
- Mizukaze GreenΔE00 4.503 · #1a3f2c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.