Melancholia
#12390d
A green that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#12390d
RGB
18, 57, 13
OKLCh
30.6% 0.083 141.5°
CIELAB (D50)
20.4, -22.0, 22.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.0; 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 12.4 and 12.4 and 38.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.99:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.62:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.99:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#12390d
protanopia
#36360d · ΔE00 12.4
deuteranopia
#31310f · ΔE00 12.4
tritanopia
#2b2b5d · ΔE00 38.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGameboy Contrast at ΔE00 0.95: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Gameboy ContrastΔE00 0.95 · #0f380f
- Dark GreenΔE00 2.313 · #033500
- Elite GreenΔE00 2.364 · #133700
- Witch WartΔE00 2.384 · #113300
- Serpentine ShadowΔE00 2.692 · #003300
- Dark SerpentΔE00 2.957 · #113311
- Hunter GreenΔE00 3.135 · #0b4008
- Diminishing GreenΔE00 3.422 · #062e03
- Realm of the UnderworldΔE00 3.653 · #114411
- MyrtleΔE00 3.814 · #21421e
- Queen of TreesΔE00 3.926 · #1c401f
- Haunted HillsΔE00 3.989 · #003311
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.