Verdant Forest
#28615d
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#28615d
RGB
40, 97, 93
OKLCh
45.4% 0.060 189.0°
CIELAB (D50)
37.3, -20.3, -3.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.4; on black, Lc -17.6. 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 18.1 and 20.2 and 29.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.96:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#28615d
protanopia
#5d5d5d · ΔE00 18.1
deuteranopia
#55555e · ΔE00 20.2
tritanopia
#4b4bab · ΔE00 29.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStrong Sage at ΔE00 1.037: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Strong SageΔE00 1.037 · #2b6460
- AllianceΔE00 1.584 · #2b655f
- LacrosseΔE00 2.274 · #2e5c58
- AbductionΔE00 2.334 · #166461
- Empress TealΔE00 2.679 · #10605a
- Dusky Alpine BlueΔE00 2.762 · #296767
- Magnetic GreenΔE00 2.784 · #2b6867
- Calypso GreenΔE00 2.866 · #2e5f60
- Royal PineΔE00 2.906 · #355e5a
- Galapagos GreenΔE00 3.176 · #29685f
- Emerald PoolΔE00 3.189 · #155e60
- Emerald StoneΔE00 3.207 · #016360
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.