HueComb

Beanpole

#4e8747

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

Hex

#4e8747

RGB

78, 135, 71

OKLCh

56.8% 0.112 141.6°

CIELAB (D50)

51.2, -29.7, 28.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.6; on black, Lc -32.0. 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 14.3 and 14.0 and 46.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.30:1 — large text only

Black text

4.88:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.88:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4b8444 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

#4e8747

protanopia

#828247 · ΔE00 14.3

deuteranopia

#7a7a49 · ΔE00 14.0

tritanopia

#6f6fc6 · ΔE00 46.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLevel Up at ΔE00 1.469: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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