Mana Tree
#4f7942
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#4f7942
RGB
79, 121, 66
OKLCh
53.1% 0.095 138.6°
CIELAB (D50)
46.7, -23.7, 25.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.9; on black, Lc -26.8. 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 12.0 and 11.9 and 42.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.07:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.15:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.07:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4f7942
protanopia
#757542 · ΔE00 12.0
deuteranopia
#6f6f44 · ΔE00 11.9
tritanopia
#6767a9 · ΔE00 42.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNereus at ΔE00 1.329: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- NereusΔE00 1.329 · #4c793c
- Autumn FernΔE00 1.588 · #507b49
- Mossy GreenΔE00 2.409 · #5a7c46
- MelbourneΔE00 2.476 · #4c7c4b
- Autumn CrocodileΔE00 2.608 · #447744
- Luck of the IrishΔE00 2.675 · #547839
- Hills of IrelandΔE00 2.837 · #417b42
- Artichoke GreenΔE00 2.839 · #517345
- Mint GreenΔE00 2.89 · #487d4a
- Grassy FieldΔE00 2.905 · #5c7d47
- Kemp KellyΔE00 3.184 · #437b48
- Tarmac GreenΔE00 3.324 · #477f4a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.