Plantation
#3e594c
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
#3e594c
RGB
62, 89, 76
OKLCh
43.8% 0.039 163.5°
CIELAB (D50)
35.3, -12.9, 4.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.6; on black, Lc -15.5. 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 11.8 and 12.4 and 27.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.67:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.74:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.67:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3e594c
protanopia
#56564c · ΔE00 11.8
deuteranopia
#52524d · ΔE00 12.4
tritanopia
#4d4d83 · ΔE00 27.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWoodlawn Green at ΔE00 1.171: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Woodlawn GreenΔE00 1.171 · #405b50
- Shadow LeafΔE00 1.394 · #395648
- Patio GreenΔE00 1.417 · #3f5a50
- Leprechaun GreenΔE00 1.511 · #395549
- Deep JungleΔE00 1.544 · #3f564a
- Royal Hunter GreenΔE00 1.75 · #3f5948
- Midnight CloverΔE00 1.893 · #3c574e
- Ethereal WoodsΔE00 2.275 · #3e5e4e
- IridescentΔE00 2.607 · #3a5b52
- Balsam BranchΔE00 2.72 · #36574e
- Trekking GreenΔE00 2.777 · #3d5c54
- Vinca & VineΔE00 2.786 · #45584c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.