Over the Hills
#4d6d08
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#4d6d08
RGB
77, 109, 8
OKLCh
49.2% 0.124 127.4°
CIELAB (D50)
42.2, -22.7, 44.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 97% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.7; on black, Lc -22.1. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 9.1 and 8.9 and 44.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.99:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.51:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.99:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4d6d08
protanopia
#6a6a07 · ΔE00 9.1
deuteranopia
#65650d · ΔE00 8.9
tritanopia
#5f5f86 · ΔE00 44.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBowser Shell at ΔE00 2.794: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Bowser ShellΔE00 2.794 · #536b1f
- Forestial OutpostΔE00 3.909 · #556611
- Serrano PepperΔE00 4.173 · #556600
- TropicanaΔE00 4.325 · #447700
- Tatzelwurm GreenΔE00 4.388 · #376d03
- Forest EmpressΔE00 4.453 · #3d7016
- Camouflage GreenΔE00 4.58 · #4b6113
- Loren ForestΔE00 4.837 · #50702d
- Green LeafΔE00 5.127 · #526b2d
- Tabbouleh GreenΔE00 5.184 · #526525
- Bimi GreenΔE00 5.368 · #54682b
- Fiji GreenΔE00 5.48 · #636f22
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.