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#387b54

A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#387b54

RGB

56, 123, 84

OKLCh

52.8% 0.093 155.8°

CIELAB (D50)

46.5, -29.6, 14.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.9; on black, Lc -26.8. 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 16.9 and 17.4 and 41.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.09:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.13:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.09:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#387b54

protanopia

#767654 · ΔE00 16.9

deuteranopia

#6d6d56 · ΔE00 17.4

tritanopia

#6161c6 · ΔE00 41.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCanadian Pine at ΔE00 1.253: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.