HueComb

May Green

#4c9141

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

Hex

#4c9141

RGB

76, 145, 65

OKLCh

59.2% 0.134 141.0°

CIELAB (D50)

54.3, -35.1, 34.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.9; on black, Lc -35.8. 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 15.7 and 15.3 and 51.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.86:1 — large text only

Black text

5.43:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.43:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#418636 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

#4c9141

protanopia

#8b8b40 · ΔE00 15.7

deuteranopia

#828244 · ΔE00 15.3

tritanopia

#7575d8 · ΔE00 51.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOnline Lime at ΔE00 1.903: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.