Monster Monstera
#2f8351
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#2f8351
RGB
47, 131, 81
OKLCh
54.6% 0.113 153.9°
CIELAB (D50)
48.8, -35.5, 19.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.2; on black, Lc -29.5. 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 18.1 and 18.0 and 45.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.68:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.49:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.68:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2f8351
protanopia
#7d7d51 · ΔE00 18.1
deuteranopia
#727253 · ΔE00 18.0
tritanopia
#6565d7 · ΔE00 45.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBold Irish 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.
- Bold IrishΔE00 1.016 · #2a814d
- Lucky GreenΔE00 1.447 · #238652
- Kākāriki GreenΔE00 1.838 · #298256
- Dark EmeraldΔE00 2.57 · #00834e
- Veritably VerdantΔE00 2.661 · #00844b
- Green GrassΔE00 2.767 · #39854a
- Pixel NatureΔE00 2.774 · #008751
- IrishΔE00 2.802 · #398a59
- Metallic GreenΔE00 2.872 · #24855b
- Lake GreenΔE00 2.875 · #2e8b57
- Picture Book GreenΔE00 2.908 · #00804c
- Imperial GreenΔE00 2.937 · #408750
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.