Ruminant’s Paradise
#5ca904
A green that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#5ca904
RGB
92, 169, 4
OKLCh
65.9% 0.189 134.3°
CIELAB (D50)
62.4, -42.0, 61.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 55.6; on black, Lc -46.2. 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 15.5 and 15.1 and 60.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.94:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#478600 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5ca904
protanopia
#a3a300 · ΔE00 15.5
deuteranopia
#989815 · ΔE00 15.1
tritanopia
#8a8af0 · ΔE00 60.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYoshi at ΔE00 0.925: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- YoshiΔE00 0.925 · #55aa00
- Plastic PinesΔE00 1.301 · #55aa11
- Dark SlimelimeΔE00 1.314 · #66aa11
- Appetising AsparagusΔE00 1.557 · #66aa00
- Green SymphonyΔE00 1.612 · #66aa22
- Prairie GreenΔE00 2.102 · #50a400
- Lawn GreenΔE00 2.522 · #4da409
- Herbal LiftΔE00 2.548 · #6ba520
- Kermit GreenΔE00 2.593 · #5cb200
- Early DewΔE00 2.778 · #44aa00
- Alpine MeadowΔE00 2.803 · #6aae2e
- GrassΔE00 2.804 · #5cac2d
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.