Under the Radar
#476e42
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#476e42
RGB
71, 110, 66
OKLCh
49.7% 0.081 141.6°
CIELAB (D50)
42.6, -21.5, 20.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.3; on black, Lc -22.5. 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 12.1 and 12.3 and 39.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.87:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.58:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.87:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#476e42
protanopia
#6a6a42 · ΔE00 12.1
deuteranopia
#646443 · ΔE00 12.3
tritanopia
#5d5d9c · ΔE00 39.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPine Scent at ΔE00 0.882: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pine ScentΔE00 0.882 · #4a6d42
- Jungle AdventureΔE00 1.671 · #446d46
- Arcala GreenΔE00 2.328 · #3b6c3f
- Gully GreenΔE00 2.358 · #4b6e3b
- Mount HyjalΔE00 2.364 · #3d703e
- Artichoke GreenΔE00 2.562 · #517345
- Spring JuniperΔE00 2.619 · #4a754a
- Friendly FairwayΔE00 3.007 · #3f663e
- Irish CloverΔE00 3.033 · #53734c
- Parsley SprigΔE00 3.226 · #3d7049
- GrasslandsΔE00 3.287 · #407548
- Jurassic ParkΔE00 3.29 · #3c663e
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.