Autumn Crocodile
#447744
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#447744
RGB
68, 119, 68
OKLCh
52.0% 0.096 144.0°
CIELAB (D50)
45.4, -26.4, 22.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.2; on black, Lc -25.6. 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 13.9 and 13.8 and 43.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.29:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.97:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.29:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#447744
protanopia
#737344 · ΔE00 13.9
deuteranopia
#6b6b46 · ΔE00 13.8
tritanopia
#6262b1 · ΔE00 43.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKemp Kelly at ΔE00 1.557: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Kemp KellyΔE00 1.557 · #437b48
- Maidenhair FernΔE00 1.811 · #44764a
- Hills of IrelandΔE00 1.833 · #417b42
- GrasslandsΔE00 1.88 · #407548
- Cucumber QueenΔE00 1.972 · #3c773c
- Spring JuniperΔE00 2.155 · #4a754a
- MelbourneΔE00 2.202 · #4c7c4b
- Mint GreenΔE00 2.223 · #487d4a
- Autumn FernΔE00 2.48 · #507b49
- Mount HyjalΔE00 2.582 · #3d703e
- Mana TreeΔE00 2.608 · #4f7942
- Tarmac GreenΔE00 2.892 · #477f4a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.