Forest Serenade
#336644
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#336644
RGB
51, 102, 68
OKLCh
46.5% 0.079 153.1°
CIELAB (D50)
38.9, -24.4, 13.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.0; on black, Lc -18.9. 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 15.3 and 15.8 and 38.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.72:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.12:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.72:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#336644
protanopia
#626244 · ΔE00 15.3
deuteranopia
#5b5b45 · ΔE00 15.8
tritanopia
#5252a1 · ΔE00 38.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThousand Years Green at ΔE00 0.569: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Thousand Years GreenΔE00 0.569 · #316745
- Genever GreenΔE00 1.777 · #33673f
- Chopped ChiveΔE00 2.048 · #336b4b
- Fairway GreenΔE00 2.178 · #26623f
- Black Pine GreenΔE00 2.268 · #33654a
- Pumpkin GreenΔE00 2.302 · #286848
- Green PeaΔE00 2.347 · #266242
- SpirulinaΔE00 2.412 · #34694d
- MidoriΔE00 2.459 · #2a603b
- Emerald TempleΔE00 2.511 · #2b5f3c
- Jungle Book GreenΔE00 2.644 · #366c4e
- EspalierΔE00 2.706 · #2f5f3a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.