HueComb

Wicked Witch

#5b984f

A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#5b984f

RGB

91, 152, 79

OKLCh

62.0% 0.123 140.4°

CIELAB (D50)

57.4, -31.7, 31.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.1; on black, Lc -39.6. 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 14.6 and 14.2 and 48.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.47:1 — large text only

Black text

6.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#48843c 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

#5b984f

protanopia

#93934f · ΔE00 14.6

deuteranopia

#8a8a51 · ΔE00 14.2

tritanopia

#7f7fdb · ΔE00 48.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBredon Green at ΔE00 1.751: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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