HueComb

Leapfrog

#41a94f

A green that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#41a94f

RGB

65, 169, 79

OKLCh

65.3% 0.160 145.9°

CIELAB (D50)

61.7, -45.6, 36.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.3; on black, Lc -45.5. 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 19.3 and 18.7 and 53.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.99:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.01:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.01:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#178930 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#41a94f

protanopia

#a1a14e · ΔE00 19.3

deuteranopia

#949453 · ΔE00 18.7

tritanopia

#8383ff · ΔE00 53.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDevil’s Grass at ΔE00 0.934: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.