Wild Forest
#38914a
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#38914a
RGB
56, 145, 74
OKLCh
58.6% 0.136 147.6°
CIELAB (D50)
53.6, -39.6, 29.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.6; on black, Lc -35.1. 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 18.2 and 17.7 and 50.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.95:1 — large text only
Black text
5.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#2d8741 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#38914a
protanopia
#8a8a49 · ΔE00 18.2
deuteranopia
#7f7f4d · ΔE00 17.7
tritanopia
#7070e7 · ΔE00 50.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPaperboy’s Lawn at ΔE00 1.628: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Paperboy’s LawnΔE00 1.628 · #249148
- Park PicnicΔE00 1.647 · #428f46
- UndercloverΔE00 2.055 · #428c49
- Discover DecoΔE00 2.202 · #4a934e
- Green RibbonΔE00 2.329 · #288f3d
- Formal GardenΔE00 2.377 · #3a984d
- Lush GrassΔE00 2.445 · #468d45
- Fly the GreenΔE00 2.792 · #218d4b
- Shamrock FieldΔE00 2.803 · #358d52
- St. PatrickΔE00 2.925 · #2b8c4e
- Ineffable ForestΔE00 2.946 · #4f9153
- Medium GreenΔE00 3.039 · #418c53
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.