Forest Empress
#3d7016
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#3d7016
RGB
61, 112, 22
OKLCh
49.1% 0.131 135.0°
CIELAB (D50)
42.3, -29.8, 40.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 91% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.5; on black, Lc -22.3. 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 13.1 and 12.7 and 49.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.95:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.53:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.95:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3d7016
protanopia
#6c6c15 · ΔE00 13.1
deuteranopia
#64641a · ΔE00 12.7
tritanopia
#5b5ba1 · ΔE00 49.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTatzelwurm Green at ΔE00 1.767: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tatzelwurm GreenΔE00 1.767 · #376d03
- NemophilistΔE00 2.949 · #337711
- Battle CatΔE00 3.001 · #2b7414
- Green-Eyed MonsterΔE00 3.108 · #346e23
- Gardens SericourtΔE00 3.27 · #337700
- Odd Pea PodΔE00 3.464 · #357911
- TropicanaΔE00 3.677 · #447700
- Botanical BeautyΔE00 4.195 · #227700
- Druid GreenΔE00 4.243 · #427131
- Loren ForestΔE00 4.285 · #50702d
- Over the HillsΔE00 4.453 · #4d6d08
- BotanicalΔE00 4.513 · #4d6e2f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.