Everglade

#264334

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

#264334

RGB

38, 67, 52

OKLCh

35.5% 0.044 160.5°

CIELAB (D50)

25.8, -14.4, 5.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 95.1; on black, Lc -7.6. 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 12.6 and 13.0 and 28.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

10.85:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.93:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at10.85:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#264334

protanopia

#404034 · ΔE00 12.6

deuteranopia

#3c3c35 · ΔE00 13.0

tritanopia

#37376a · ΔE00 28.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEnglish Holly at ΔE00 0.722: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • English HollyΔE00 0.722 · #274234
  • Wine Bottle GreenΔE00 1.344 · #254636
  • BurnhamΔE00 1.512 · #234537
  • Mushiao GreenΔE00 2.018 · #2d4436
  • Birōdo GreenΔE00 2.145 · #224634
  • Norfolk GreenΔE00 2.613 · #2e4b3c
  • Mizukaze GreenΔE00 3.015 · #1a3f2c
  • Springbok GreenΔE00 3.155 · #284c3c
  • Palm GreenΔE00 3.24 · #20392c
  • Sherwood GreenΔE00 3.263 · #1b4636
  • Te Papa GreenΔE00 3.312 · #2b4b40
  • Government GreenΔE00 3.518 · #32493e

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.