Master Chief
#507d2a
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#507d2a
RGB
80, 125, 42
OKLCh
53.9% 0.124 133.3°
CIELAB (D50)
47.8, -27.2, 38.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.6; on black, Lc -28.1. 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 11.9 and 11.6 and 47.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.87:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.31:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.87:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#507d2a
protanopia
#797929 · ΔE00 11.9
deuteranopia
#72722d · ΔE00 11.6
tritanopia
#6a6aa9 · ΔE00 47.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEmerald Clear Green at ΔE00 1.537: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Emerald Clear GreenΔE00 1.537 · #4f8129
- Luscious LemongrassΔE00 2.393 · #517933
- Hot Pepper GreenΔE00 2.608 · #598039
- BilbaoΔE00 3.266 · #3e8027
- Luck of the IrishΔE00 3.649 · #547839
- Mangrove LeafΔE00 4.245 · #607c3d
- TropicanaΔE00 4.307 · #447700
- Enchanted ForestΔE00 4.386 · #5c821a
- Straken GreenΔE00 4.418 · #628026
- Odd Pea PodΔE00 4.425 · #357911
- NereusΔE00 4.458 · #4c793c
- Green PeopleΔE00 4.539 · #388004
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.