Jubilant Jade
#44aa77
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#44aa77
RGB
68, 170, 119
OKLCh
66.5% 0.122 158.5°
CIELAB (D50)
62.7, -40.1, 17.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.9; on black, Lc -46.9. 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 19.8 and 19.8 and 45.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.26:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.26:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#158857 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#44aa77
protanopia
#a2a277 · ΔE00 19.8
deuteranopia
#959579 · ΔE00 19.8
tritanopia
#8484ff · ΔE00 45.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSēn Lín Lǜ Forest at ΔE00 1.397: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sēn Lín Lǜ ForestΔE00 1.397 · #4ca973
- BeanstalkΔE00 1.496 · #31aa74
- Link’s AwakeningΔE00 1.802 · #3eaf76
- Cosmic GreenΔE00 1.908 · #30a877
- DivotΔE00 1.942 · #47b07f
- GlenΔE00 1.945 · #4aac72
- Garden MedleyΔE00 2.124 · #28a873
- Shamrock GreenΔE00 2.288 · #4ea77d
- Linoleum GreenΔE00 2.303 · #3aa372
- Crayola GreenΔE00 2.607 · #1dac78
- Bright CamouflageΔE00 2.644 · #1cac78
- JulepΔE00 2.655 · #57aa80
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.