Ethereal Woods
#3e5e4e
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
#3e5e4e
RGB
62, 94, 78
OKLCh
45.2% 0.046 162.1°
CIELAB (D50)
37.0, -15.2, 5.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.0; on black, Lc -17.1. 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 13.1 and 13.6 and 29.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.20:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.92:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.20:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3e5e4e
protanopia
#5b5b4e · ΔE00 13.1
deuteranopia
#56564f · ΔE00 13.6
tritanopia
#50508d · ΔE00 29.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAmish Green at ΔE00 1.329: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Amish GreenΔE00 1.329 · #3a5f4e
- Tropical FoliageΔE00 1.591 · #3e6252
- Mission JewelΔE00 1.826 · #456252
- SpectraΔE00 1.943 · #375d4f
- Palace GreenΔE00 1.969 · #426255
- Cucumber GreenΔE00 2.148 · #466353
- PlantationΔE00 2.275 · #3e594c
- StromboliΔE00 2.303 · #406356
- Royal Hunter GreenΔE00 2.357 · #3f5948
- Windy PineΔE00 2.371 · #3d604a
- Wine LeafΔE00 2.47 · #355e4b
- Herbes de ProvenceΔE00 2.497 · #3a5f49
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.