Bold Irish
#2a814d
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#2a814d
RGB
42, 129, 77
OKLCh
53.8% 0.116 153.4°
CIELAB (D50)
47.9, -36.4, 20.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.2; on black, Lc -28.5. 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 18.2 and 18.1 and 46.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.83:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.35:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.83:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2a814d
protanopia
#7b7b4d · ΔE00 18.2
deuteranopia
#70704f · ΔE00 18.1
tritanopia
#6262d5 · ΔE00 46.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMonster Monstera at ΔE00 1.016: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Monster MonsteraΔE00 1.016 · #2f8351
- Lucky GreenΔE00 1.941 · #238652
- Kākāriki GreenΔE00 2.251 · #298256
- Dark EmeraldΔE00 2.267 · #00834e
- Veritably VerdantΔE00 2.293 · #00844b
- Picture Book GreenΔE00 2.317 · #00804c
- Jungle GreenΔE00 2.708 · #048243
- Green GrassΔE00 2.897 · #39854a
- Pixel NatureΔE00 2.915 · #008751
- SalemΔE00 3.04 · #177b4d
- Woodland SoulΔE00 3.151 · #127a49
- Warpstone GlowΔE00 3.184 · #168340
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.