Pine Needle
#334d41
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
#334d41
RGB
51, 77, 65
OKLCh
39.5% 0.038 164.2°
CIELAB (D50)
30.3, -12.6, 3.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.2; on black, Lc -11.1. 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 11.7 and 12.2 and 27.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.22:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.28:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.22:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#334d41
protanopia
#4b4b41 · ΔE00 11.7
deuteranopia
#474742 · ΔE00 12.2
tritanopia
#424275 · ΔE00 27.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGovernment Green at ΔE00 1.534: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Government GreenΔE00 1.534 · #32493e
- Norfolk GreenΔE00 1.813 · #2e4b3c
- Te Papa GreenΔE00 2.071 · #2b4b40
- Garnet Black GreenΔE00 2.227 · #354a41
- Highland GreenΔE00 2.241 · #305144
- Peacock HouseΔE00 2.635 · #2e4b44
- Leprechaun GreenΔE00 2.652 · #395549
- SharknadoΔE00 2.671 · #35524a
- AmphitriteΔE00 2.808 · #384e47
- Hunt ClubΔE00 3.022 · #2a4f43
- Shadow LeafΔE00 3.041 · #395648
- Bracken FernΔE00 3.112 · #31453b
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.