Dark Serpent
#113311
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
#113311
RGB
17, 51, 17
OKLCh
28.6% 0.071 143.5°
CIELAB (D50)
18.1, -19.3, 17.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- 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 12.3 and 12.5 and 35.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.95:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.51:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.95:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#113311
protanopia
#303011 · ΔE00 12.3
deuteranopia
#2c2c12 · ΔE00 12.5
tritanopia
#262654 · ΔE00 35.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGameboy Contrast at ΔE00 2.316: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Gameboy ContrastΔE00 2.316 · #0f380f
- Haunted ForestΔE00 2.442 · #032e0e
- Diminishing GreenΔE00 2.472 · #062e03
- Haunted HillsΔE00 2.665 · #003311
- PrasinophobiaΔE00 2.782 · #002f0f
- PCB GreenΔE00 2.92 · #002d04
- MelancholiaΔE00 2.957 · #12390d
- Zia OliveΔE00 3.027 · #082903
- Witch WartΔE00 3.68 · #113300
- Serpentine ShadowΔE00 3.837 · #003300
- Queen of TreesΔE00 4.068 · #1c401f
- Nori GreenΔE00 4.108 · #112a12
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.