Botanical
#4d6e2f
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#4d6e2f
RGB
77, 110, 47
OKLCh
49.8% 0.099 132.0°
CIELAB (D50)
42.8, -21.2, 30.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.2; on black, Lc -22.6. 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 9.9 and 9.7 and 41.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.85:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.59:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.85:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4d6e2f
protanopia
#6b6b2f · ΔE00 9.9
deuteranopia
#666631 · ΔE00 9.7
tritanopia
#5f5f8f · ΔE00 41.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLoren Forest at ΔE00 1.207: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Loren ForestΔE00 1.207 · #50702d
- Tree ShadeΔE00 2.02 · #476a30
- Green LeafΔE00 2.056 · #526b2d
- Deep PineΔE00 2.1 · #557138
- Fig LeafΔE00 2.718 · #556b2f
- Druid GreenΔE00 2.954 · #427131
- Gully GreenΔE00 3.025 · #4b6e3b
- Tiāntāi Mountain GreenΔE00 3.344 · #566b38
- HouseplantΔE00 3.508 · #58713f
- Bimi GreenΔE00 3.574 · #54682b
- Luck of the IrishΔE00 3.647 · #547839
- DellΔE00 3.657 · #486531
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.