Swamp Monster
#005511
A green that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#005511
RGB
0, 85, 17
OKLCh
39.1% 0.124 144.8°
CIELAB (D50)
30.8, -34.7, 30.7
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 90.3; on black, Lc -12.0. 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 16.6 and 16.2 and 48.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.31:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#005511
protanopia
#505010 · ΔE00 16.6
deuteranopia
#484815 · ΔE00 16.2
tritanopia
#3d3d90 · ΔE00 48.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJungle Jam at ΔE00 1.154: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Jungle JamΔE00 1.154 · #115511
- Deep GreenΔE00 1.479 · #02590f
- ForestΔE00 1.534 · #0b5509
- Mysterious MixtureΔE00 2.217 · #0f521a
- GreeeeeeenΔE00 2.223 · #005300
- Pharmacy GreenΔE00 2.282 · #005500
- Duck HuntΔE00 2.668 · #005800
- Malachite GreenΔE00 2.786 · #004e00
- Evergreen ShadeΔE00 2.83 · #045e17
- Donegal GreenΔE00 2.953 · #115500
- Patch of LandΔE00 3.246 · #225511
- Lincoln GreenΔE00 3.394 · #195905
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.