Irish Clover
#53734c
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#53734c
RGB
83, 115, 76
OKLCh
52.0% 0.070 140.0°
CIELAB (D50)
45.2, -18.1, 17.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.6; on black, Lc -25.1. 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 11.0 and 11.2 and 36.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.35:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.92:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.35:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#53734c
protanopia
#70704c · ΔE00 11.0
deuteranopia
#6b6b4d · ΔE00 11.2
tritanopia
#65659b · ΔE00 36.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWillow Bough at ΔE00 1.566: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Willow BoughΔE00 1.566 · #59754d
- Torrey PineΔE00 1.851 · #55784f
- Artichoke GreenΔE00 1.898 · #517345
- Climbing IvyΔE00 1.957 · #58714a
- Spring JuniperΔE00 2.45 · #4a754a
- Hummingbird GreenΔE00 2.637 · #5b724a
- PineweedΔE00 2.655 · #5b7349
- Pine ScentΔE00 2.79 · #4a6d42
- Elm GreenΔE00 2.807 · #577657
- Asparagus SprigΔE00 2.992 · #576f44
- Graceland GrassΔE00 2.998 · #546c46
- Under the RadarΔE00 3.033 · #476e42
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.