HueComb

Fern

#548d44

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

Hex

#548d44

RGB

84, 141, 68

OKLCh

58.6% 0.121 139.1°

CIELAB (D50)

53.4, -30.5, 32.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.0; on black, Lc -34.6. 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 14.0 and 13.7 and 48.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.98:1 — large text only

Black text

5.27:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.27:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4b843b 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

#548d44

protanopia

#888844 · ΔE00 14.0

deuteranopia

#808046 · ΔE00 13.7

tritanopia

#7575ca · ΔE00 48.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFiji Palm at ΔE00 1.433: 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.