Cucumber Queen
#3c773c
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#3c773c
RGB
60, 119, 60
OKLCh
51.4% 0.109 143.8°
CIELAB (D50)
44.9, -30.0, 26.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.7; on black, Lc -25.1. 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 14.8 and 14.6 and 45.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.90:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3c773c
protanopia
#72723c · ΔE00 14.8
deuteranopia
#6a6a3e · ΔE00 14.6
tritanopia
#6060b5 · ΔE00 45.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHills of Ireland at ΔE00 1.651: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Hills of IrelandΔE00 1.651 · #417b42
- Autumn CrocodileΔE00 1.972 · #447744
- Japanese LaurelΔE00 2.224 · #2f7532
- Mermaid’s TailΔE00 2.462 · #337b35
- Kemp KellyΔE00 2.583 · #437b48
- Mount HyjalΔE00 2.902 · #3d703e
- NereusΔE00 3.054 · #4c793c
- Gorgeous GreenΔE00 3.143 · #287c37
- Druid GreenΔE00 3.281 · #427131
- GrasslandsΔE00 3.286 · #407548
- Mint GreenΔE00 3.29 · #487d4a
- Mana TreeΔE00 3.345 · #4f7942
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.