HueComb

Underclover

#428c49

A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#428c49

RGB

66, 140, 73

OKLCh

57.6% 0.124 145.6°

CIELAB (D50)

52.3, -35.2, 28.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.2; on black, Lc -33.5. 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 16.6 and 16.2 and 48.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.13:1 — large text only

Black text

5.08:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.08:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#3c8643 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

#428c49

protanopia

#868649 · ΔE00 16.6

deuteranopia

#7c7c4b · ΔE00 16.2

tritanopia

#6f6fd9 · ΔE00 48.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLush Grass at ΔE00 1.32: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.