Parsley Sprig
#3d7049
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#3d7049
RGB
61, 112, 73
OKLCh
49.8% 0.083 150.1°
CIELAB (D50)
42.9, -25.0, 16.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.9; on black, Lc -22.9. 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 15.2 and 39.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.81:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.61:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.81:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3d7049
protanopia
#6c6c49 · ΔE00 14.8
deuteranopia
#64644a · ΔE00 15.2
tritanopia
#5b5bac · ΔE00 39.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJungle Adventure at ΔE00 2.092: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Jungle AdventureΔE00 2.092 · #446d46
- GrasslandsΔE00 2.261 · #407548
- Arcala GreenΔE00 2.424 · #3b6c3f
- FairwayΔE00 2.563 · #477050
- Maidenhair FernΔE00 2.604 · #44764a
- KillarneyΔE00 2.789 · #49764f
- Mount HyjalΔE00 3.055 · #3d703e
- Spring JuniperΔE00 3.102 · #4a754a
- Chopped ChiveΔE00 3.117 · #336b4b
- Under the RadarΔE00 3.226 · #476e42
- Jungle Book GreenΔE00 3.275 · #366c4e
- Genever GreenΔE00 3.312 · #33673f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.