Pine
#2b5d34
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#2b5d34
RGB
43, 93, 52
OKLCh
43.2% 0.086 147.9°
CIELAB (D50)
35.2, -25.2, 18.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.7; on black, Lc -15.4. 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 14.4 and 14.7 and 40.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.73:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.72:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.73:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2b5d34
protanopia
#595934 · ΔE00 14.4
deuteranopia
#525236 · ΔE00 14.7
tritanopia
#494993 · ΔE00 40.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isParsley at ΔE00 0.884: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ParsleyΔE00 0.884 · #305d35
- DerbyshireΔE00 1.383 · #245e36
- EspalierΔE00 1.427 · #2f5f3a
- MidoriΔE00 1.851 · #2a603b
- Emerald TempleΔE00 2.105 · #2b5f3c
- Verde GarrafaΔE00 2.239 · #355e3b
- Deep Into the WoodΔE00 2.253 · #306030
- CrusoeΔE00 2.676 · #165b31
- Gameboy ShadeΔE00 2.831 · #306230
- Fairway GreenΔE00 3.177 · #26623f
- Moor-MonsterΔE00 3.193 · #1f5429
- Genever GreenΔE00 3.45 · #33673f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.