Natural Orchestra
#4c9c77
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#4c9c77
RGB
76, 156, 119
OKLCh
63.2% 0.098 161.7°
CIELAB (D50)
58.6, -32.5, 11.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.4; on black, Lc -41.3. 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 18.6 and 19.4 and 42.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.32:1 — large text only
Black text
6.33:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.33:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#338561 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
#4c9c77
protanopia
#969677 · ΔE00 18.6
deuteranopia
#8b8b79 · ΔE00 19.4
tritanopia
#7d7dfb · ΔE00 42.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSea Cabbage at ΔE00 0.998: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sea CabbageΔE00 0.998 · #519d76
- SmaragdineΔE00 1.08 · #4a9976
- Dancing JewelΔE00 1.323 · #429b77
- Advertising GreenΔE00 1.588 · #53a079
- Fake FernΔE00 1.6 · #529875
- Ocean GreenΔE00 1.915 · #3d9973
- Green SpruceΔE00 2.027 · #589f7e
- Good LuckΔE00 2.043 · #499674
- Tropical ToneΔE00 2.274 · #50a074
- Memphis GreenΔE00 2.58 · #5e9d7b
- Wintergreen ShadowΔE00 2.618 · #4f9e81
- Inspiration PeakΔE00 2.884 · #4fa183
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.