Later Gator
#008a51
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#008a51
RGB
0, 138, 81
OKLCh
55.7% 0.135 156.2°
CIELAB (D50)
50.4, -43.8, 21.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 70.0; on black, Lc -31.7. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 20.6 and 20.2 and 48.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.42:1 — large text only
Black text
4.75:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.75:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008950 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#008a51
protanopia
#838351 · ΔE00 20.6
deuteranopia
#767654 · ΔE00 20.2
tritanopia
#6565ed · ΔE00 48.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEnglish Meadow at ΔE00 0.226: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- English MeadowΔE00 0.226 · #028a52
- Iceland GreenΔE00 0.364 · #008b52
- Center FieldΔE00 1.097 · #008b56
- Real TurquoiseΔE00 1.15 · #008a4c
- Pixel NatureΔE00 1.189 · #008751
- Lucky GreenΔE00 1.948 · #238652
- Veritably VerdantΔE00 2.196 · #00844b
- MossΔE00 2.327 · #009051
- Vital GreenΔE00 2.335 · #138859
- Lake GreenΔE00 2.357 · #2e8b57
- Bottle GlassΔE00 2.465 · #238e50
- Emerald IsleΔE00 2.49 · #019157
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.