Toad King
#3d6c54
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
#3d6c54
RGB
61, 108, 84
OKLCh
49.0% 0.065 160.4°
CIELAB (D50)
41.7, -21.4, 8.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.1; on black, Lc -21.7. 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 15.7 and 16.3 and 34.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.05:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.47:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.05:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3d6c54
protanopia
#686854 · ΔE00 15.7
deuteranopia
#616155 · ΔE00 16.3
tritanopia
#5959aa · ΔE00 34.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFoliage Green at ΔE00 1.193: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Foliage GreenΔE00 1.193 · #3e6f58
- SpirulinaΔE00 2.147 · #34694d
- Jungle Book GreenΔE00 2.198 · #366c4e
- Poker GreenΔE00 2.555 · #35654d
- Nordic PineΔE00 2.79 · #43694d
- Black Pine GreenΔE00 2.938 · #33654a
- Chopped ChiveΔE00 2.953 · #336b4b
- Serbian GreenΔE00 3.105 · #3e644f
- Isle of PinesΔE00 3.193 · #3e6655
- Green PerennialΔE00 3.277 · #47694f
- June IvyΔE00 3.302 · #416858
- Plantain GreenΔE00 3.526 · #356554
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.