Cucumber
#006400
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#006400
RGB
0, 100, 0
OKLCh
43.6% 0.148 142.5°
CIELAB (D50)
36.2, -39.9, 40.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 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 85.1; on black, Lc -16.9. 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 17.6 and 17.1 and 53.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.44:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.82:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.44:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#006400
protanopia
#5e5e00 · ΔE00 17.6
deuteranopia
#555509 · ΔE00 17.1
tritanopia
#4848a6 · ΔE00 53.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPakistan Green at ΔE00 0.654: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pakistan GreenΔE00 0.654 · #006600
- Emerald GreenΔE00 0.774 · #046307
- Apple II GreenΔE00 1.172 · #04650d
- Forest RideΔE00 1.31 · #006800
- Overgrown TempleΔE00 1.563 · #116611
- Nature’s MasterpieceΔE00 1.695 · #006611
- Zelyony GreenΔE00 1.793 · #016612
- Leafy LushΔE00 1.841 · #08690e
- Thuja GreenΔE00 1.879 · #11610f
- Keen GreenΔE00 2.53 · #226600
- Evergreen ShadeΔE00 3.699 · #045e17
- Duck HuntΔE00 3.876 · #005800
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.