Broccoli Green
#4b5338
A yellow 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
#4b5338
RGB
75, 83, 56
OKLCh
42.7% 0.044 121.7°
CIELAB (D50)
34.0, -7.3, 14.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.0; on black, Lc -14.1. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 16.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.59:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4b5338
protanopia
#525238 · ΔE00 4.0
deuteranopia
#515138 · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#4f4f54 · ΔE00 16.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanksia Leaf at ΔE00 1.049: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Banksia LeafΔE00 1.049 · #4b5539
- ChiveΔE00 1.591 · #4d5637
- Matsuba GreenΔE00 2.051 · #454d32
- Dark RainforestΔE00 2.303 · #505838
- Blue Black CrayfishΔE00 2.384 · #52593b
- Amazon DepthsΔE00 2.475 · #505338
- Green Shade WashΔE00 2.688 · #45523a
- Lunar GreenΔE00 2.773 · #4e5541
- Green Tone InkΔE00 2.843 · #47553c
- Green GoannaΔE00 2.929 · #505a39
- ChardΔE00 3.118 · #48553f
- Heavy GreenΔE00 3.333 · #49583e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.