Hōjicha
#424f3b
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
#424f3b
RGB
66, 79, 59
OKLCh
41.0% 0.036 134.8°
CIELAB (D50)
32.0, -8.6, 10.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 31% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.8; on black, Lc -12.4. 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 6.6 and 6.8 and 22.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.70:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.41:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.70:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#424f3b
protanopia
#4e4e3b · ΔE00 6.6
deuteranopia
#4b4b3b · ΔE00 6.8
tritanopia
#49495f · ΔE00 22.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSavannah Moss at ΔE00 1.51: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Savannah MossΔE00 1.51 · #47533f
- Green Shade WashΔE00 1.77 · #45523a
- Castellan GreenΔE00 1.775 · #455440
- ChardΔE00 2.137 · #48553f
- Pine ForestΔE00 2.324 · #415241
- Copper Pyrite GreenΔE00 2.495 · #3e4939
- OkroshkaΔE00 2.575 · #40533d
- Green Tone InkΔE00 2.612 · #47553c
- Catachan GreenΔE00 2.791 · #475742
- Duffel BagΔE00 2.988 · #464e3f
- Mountain ViewΔE00 3.158 · #394c3b
- Cabbage PontΔE00 3.242 · #4c5544
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.