Forestry
#2f441f
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
#2f441f
RGB
47, 68, 31
OKLCh
35.9% 0.065 133.1°
CIELAB (D50)
26.3, -14.4, 19.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.7; on black, Lc -7.9. 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 8.6 and 8.7 and 31.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.67:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.97:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.67:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2f441f
protanopia
#42421f · ΔE00 8.6
deuteranopia
#3f3f20 · ΔE00 8.7
tritanopia
#3b3b5a · ΔE00 31.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCeylanite at ΔE00 1.724: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- CeylaniteΔE00 1.724 · #33431e
- Hinterlands GreenΔE00 3.478 · #304112
- Nettle GreenΔE00 3.64 · #364c2e
- MyrtleΔE00 3.645 · #21421e
- Treetop CathedralΔE00 4.097 · #2f4a15
- Palm LeafΔE00 4.28 · #36482f
- Avocado Dark GreenΔE00 4.451 · #3e4826
- Chestnut GreenΔE00 4.876 · #2a4f21
- Queen of TreesΔE00 4.899 · #1c401f
- Turtle SkinΔE00 4.936 · #363e1d
- Darkest ForestΔE00 5.313 · #223311
- Bronze ToneΔE00 5.557 · #434c28
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.