Zucchini
#17462e
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
#17462e
RGB
23, 70, 46
OKLCh
35.4% 0.066 157.9°
CIELAB (D50)
26.0, -21.7, 9.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.7; on black, Lc -7.9. 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 15.5 and 16.1 and 34.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.76:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.95:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.76:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#17462e
protanopia
#43432e · ΔE00 15.5
deuteranopia
#3c3c2f · ΔE00 16.1
tritanopia
#353577 · ΔE00 34.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCounty Green at ΔE00 1.852: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- County GreenΔE00 1.852 · #1b4b35
- Order GreenΔE00 1.922 · #1a4c32
- Alaskan MossΔE00 2.416 · #05472a
- Lost in the WoodsΔE00 2.864 · #014426
- Angel GreenΔE00 2.919 · #004225
- Birōdo GreenΔE00 2.921 · #224634
- Mizukaze GreenΔE00 2.984 · #1a3f2c
- Sherwood GreenΔE00 3.144 · #1b4636
- UP Forest GreenΔE00 3.177 · #014431
- Moisty MireΔE00 3.814 · #004422
- Cal Poly Pomona GreenΔE00 3.854 · #1e4d2b
- Wine Bottle GreenΔE00 3.97 · #254636
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.