Lincoln Green
#195905
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#195905
RGB
25, 89, 5
OKLCh
40.8% 0.128 140.1°
CIELAB (D50)
32.7, -32.6, 36.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 97% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.8; on black, Lc -13.4. 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 15.1 and 14.7 and 49.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.49:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.47:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.49:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#195905
protanopia
#555504 · ΔE00 15.1
deuteranopia
#4d4d0c · ΔE00 14.7
tritanopia
#43438f · ΔE00 49.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDonegal Green at ΔE00 1.367: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Donegal GreenΔE00 1.367 · #115500
- Duck HuntΔE00 1.692 · #005800
- ForestΔE00 2.066 · #0b5509
- Pharmacy GreenΔE00 2.069 · #005500
- Patch of LandΔE00 2.307 · #225511
- Deep GreenΔE00 2.494 · #02590f
- GreeeeeeenΔE00 2.496 · #005300
- Jungle JamΔE00 2.633 · #115511
- Thuja GreenΔE00 2.832 · #11610f
- Swamp MonsterΔE00 3.394 · #005511
- Evergreen ShadeΔE00 3.401 · #045e17
- Emerald GreenΔE00 3.56 · #046307
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.